Paul say men must not pray with their head covered. What about our cardinals and popes?

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I know it sounds silly but i would like to have an answer. and that being said i dont know why women have stopped wearing a vail
 
I actually read this not too long ago, and my understanding is, I’m not the Arbiter of scripture.
 
I think Bishops remove all their headcoverings during the Canon for this specific reason.
Women stopped covering their heads in the church because the Church stopped requiring it, but a good number of women still do it especially at more traditional churches or at the Traditional Latin Mass.
 
What type of head covering was Paul writing about? And to whom was he writing? And, under what circumstances? This will take some research, but you will have your answer. And, that which you look up, you will remember.
 
This is a place to look it up… trying to type in the right keywords to google to trigger reliable resources is not a better alternative.
 
The Successor of Peter can proclaim what he wants. If he says it’s OK, it’s OK. Paul said women should shut up in church, too. We tossed that out the window a long time ago.
 
The Catholic Church is an Apostolic Church. It relies on the apostles, and their successors the bishopric, to transmit revealed truth through each generation until the end of time.

There is no way to prooftext the Bible and arrive at concrete conclusions because the Bible was never written for that purpose. The New Testament in particular is just the 4 Gospels, followed by an assortment of letters, followed by a prophetic text - Revelation - written in similar format to Zechariah. It is completely inadequate at addressing all of the minutiae of life. A living Church does that.

In this particular case, those verses are understood as a ‘discipline’. Meaning they are something the apostle wrote to his 1st century audience to be observed in the early churches, but it does not have to apply in all places and at all times.

How do we know this for a fact just from reading the Bible? We don’t. It doesn’t systematically flesh it out. Paul literally spends a few sentences of ink on it and then moves on. If you presented to him the notion that he needed to spell everything out legalistically and lengthily in his letters he would have found you eccentric. He was writing exhortations to different churches during his very dangerous and busy missionary life. A few of them - especially Romans - also contained some deep theology. Although we know that Paul, in addition to being a highly educated rabbi, was a mystic and experienced visions, it is doubtful he had a clue his words would become enshrined into sacred text and the liturgy for millennia. Christians were expecting Christ to come back any day. You have to rely on the apostolic authority which preceded Sacred Scripture, and which itself penned Sacred Scripture.

So in short: women don’t have to wear head coverings because the Church says so. Men can theoretically pray with their head covered. Why? The Church says so. We comply to her. As for those Catholics that don’t comply - or who consider the Church too many steps to the left or to the right for their personal liking - and who go about their own way: they will explain themselves to God.
 
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With regard to head coverings, it seems the Church has treated it as a cultural thing that was an expression of an important truth. The important truth is that we show due respect to the sacred rites, sacred places, sacred actions, and sacred things, especially the Blessed Sacrament.

For example, here is the canon from the 1917 Code on head coverings–it clearly makes provisions for different cultural expressions:
  1. Men, in a church or outside a church, while they are assisting at sacred rites, shall be bare-headed, unless the approved mores of the people or peculiar circumstances of things determine otherwise; women, however, shall have a covered head and be modestly dressed, especially when they approach the table of the Lord.
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I’m no canon lawyer, but I would also guess the same reasoning applies to women wearing head coverings, since that is included as a parallel in the same canon.

This is why, for example, priests were allowed to wear the jin in China (it is a box like hat that is an expression of respect and sacredness from what I understand):




Notice also the uncovered heads of most of the women in the last picture.
 
You have to read all of the chapter not just one verse. In verse 2 he is thanking the town of Corinth. Then he goes on to say who is the head which is Christ. And that man is the head of woman but without woman there would be no man and without man there would be no woman.

The head covering and the veil. Paul is saying that the Church has NO such customs. In verse 16 he is telling the town of Corinth if you want to argue about it that’s fine but the church has no such customs

Now in verse17-34 that they are not examing themselves ( confessing their sins). Dead by not confessing their sins they are bringing heresy and schism to the church and they are bringing judgement on themselves.

24-27 is the Lord supper the Eucharist. He doesn’t want you to take Jesus’ body and blood with sin on your soul so you must examine yourself

In verse 34 when he says if anyone is hungry he is talking about regular food. He goes on to say let him eat at home, so that you may not assembled together unto judgement. He is separating the goats from the Sheep. The last sentence as for the rest, I will set it in order when I arrive.

Paul is saying he will set church service up for the faithful. What are they arriving for? The Catholic Mass read vs24-27. Now that is while he is in Corinth he is spending time with the people showing them this new Church the Catholic Church.
 
Excuse me but there has been said so non sense and some good ones. First if pope says ok its ok, you dont understand how it works, pope can not go agaisnt deposit of faith, im not saying the head covering is a specific deposit of faith. But to let you know the pope is not God.

Second just see the reasons that paul appeals to womens teaching and being quiet , head covering and so on. He appeals to creation and nature, for sure is a custom, but paul appeals to creation and order of nature.

As i said the has been good responses and i appreciate it.
 
I rely i just would like to have the information why the church says so, and thats what i was expecting the guy who posted the chinese priest and so on did a good job. But your answer was like saying sky is blue.
 
In that case, the majority of people don’t think the sky is blue 🙂

But I’m glad somebody answered your question more specifically.
 
i see young men wearing sports ball caps at Sunday Mass

although my initial reaction is “they are disrespectful”

once i reconsider; i say (to myself); at least they are at Mass 🙂
 
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They would only be intentionally disrespectful if they understood there was a reason and/or a custom of not doing so. Many people are not particularly aware that they are doing something which runs against a custom. and as you noted, they are in church.
 
St. Paul said a lot of things. Some of them were specific to the congregation he was addressing; some of them were culturally specific. And much of it has value and a message which is timeless.
 
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