What the proper way for a Catholic to show their love for the Turkish culture?

[Aydan]

I don’t think anybody agrees that human rights abuses are fair under any circumstances in any country. But not all Turks feel this way there are many Turks that want to change the political situation there however they are being prevented from doing so by their governments. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to judge the whole population by their government.and also the violence does not just pertain to Christians either there’s plenty of other ethnic violence in Turkey as well

That’s not fair,

I agree. How the Turks treat Christians is not fair.

 

[Aydan]

I was looking up the history of Christian head coverings and I found this one I was surprised to see how similar it is to the Muslim traditional hijab today and this one is actually from a Catholic church in the Middle Ages. Is anybody else shocked about this or do you have any thoughts on this I was just shocked when I found out this was a Catholic head covering? Here’s the web site I got the picture from
scrollpublishing.com/store/head-covering-history.html
I’m not going to start wearing it in church or anything I’m just curious if anybody has an opinion on it?

 

[Navarricano]

Hello Aydan,

No. I’m not shocked at all. In an earlier post I mentioned the same thing:

As for the whole head covering issue, it’s worth remembering, I think, that until very recently (i.e., the last 40 years or so, since the late 60s) it was common for all women to wear scarves or hats of some kind when they went out in public. I remember my mother and my grandmother wearing scarves when they went out in public all of the time. To this day, a woman with an elegant little hat always gets my attention, though it is rare to see.

But when you look at old films and newsreels of people on the streets of London, New York, Chicago, wherever, you always see men and women wearing hats and women with scarves. I suppose the custom was another casualty of the changing philosophies and styles of the 60s and the 70s.

There is nothing that is particularly Muslim about the practice of a woman covering her hair with a scarf of veil in public. It was once common practice in Jewish, Christian and Islamic cultures, though women in the first two have gradually moved away from and abandoned it for the most part.

Remember, the veils that nuns wear were once not part of a distinctive “uniform” called the habit, it was the common dress of all women in society. What set the nun’s garb apart was the poverty or simplicity of the fabric and colors employed, but not the cut of the garb. The veil eventually became part of a distinctive habit when secular fashions moved away from it.

 

[Aydan]

thanks for the neat prospective I’ve really enjoyed learning about some of the history of our church on this topic. I’m still a relatively inexperienced Catholic I’ve been in the church for about four years now. It just saddens me that today if somebody were to walk in with a head covering like this it would automatically be assumed to be an Islamic head covering. Unless of course she is dressed in a habit It is really disappointing because Turkey has some beautiful beautiful head scarves it makes me wish we still have the tradition in our church because these fabrics are much prettier than the chapel veils I’ve seen.

Hello Aydan,

No. I’m not shocked at all. In an earlier post I mentioned the same thing:

There is nothing that is particularly Muslim about the practice of a woman covering her hair with a scarf of veil in public. It was once common practice in Jewish, Christian and Islamic cultures, though women in the first two have gradually moved away from and abandoned it for the most part.

Remember, the veils that nuns wear were once not part of a distinctive “uniform” called the habit, it was the common dress of all women in society. What set the nun’s garb apart was the poverty or simplicity of the fabric and colors employed, but not the cut of the garb. The veil eventually became part of a distinctive habit when secular fashions moved away from it.