Why head covering?

[piouswoman]

The obedience I spoke of was prescisely that of God nudging me. I did not say that everyone is so moved. I personally would like it if other ladies covered. In my thoughts it as a sign of reverence by most women who cover today.
But if you don’t as I said I probably won’t notice. I am busy trying to keep my thoughts and heart on my prayers and devotions.
But as for it being “a reasoned response” by the Church, I have always heard differently.

“During the second Vatican Council, a mob of reporters waited for news after a council meeting. One of them asked Msgr. Annibale Bugnini, then secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship, if women still had to wear a headcover in churches. His response was that the Bishops were considering other issues, and that women’s veils were not on the agenda. The next day, the International Press announced throughout the world that women did not have to wear the veil anymore. A few days later, Msgr. Bugnini told the press he was misquoted and women still had to wear the veil. But the Press did not retract the error, and many women stopped wearing the veil…”

I agree, this is an example of the revolution that was occuring in the church and the notion of “no veils” was jumped on by the feminists that were beginning to crawl out of the woodwork. It is also a perfect example of the immense power that the press holds.

 

[CradleCath]

I agree, this is an example of the revolution that was occuring in the church and the notion of “no veils” was jumped on by the feminists that were beginning to crawl out of the woodwork. It is also a perfect example of the immense power that the press holds.

Absolutely! I just read an article about this very thing. Catholic women became convinced that artificial birth control, shedding the head coverings & working outside of the home, while others raised their children…was SUCH a privilege.
The full article can be found at:

catholicknight.blogspot.com/2007/12/chapel-veil-veiling-or-head-covering.html

Part of the article reads as follows:
"The chapel veil was the custom of all Catholic churches (eastern and western), everywhere in the world (including English-speaking nations) for nearly 2,000 years. The custom only fell out of use among western Catholic women, particularly in English-speaking nations, in just the last 30-40 years. Why is that?

A movement was introduced to western culture at around the same time that explains a lot of it. The movement was called feminism. Like most social movements born in the 1960s, some good did come out of it. But at the same time, some not-so-good things came out of it. On the positive side, feminism pushed for equality for women in the workplace and in government. On the negative side, feminism saddled women with burdens they never bargained for, and in some ways made their struggle worse than it was before. The long term effects of feminism (positive and negative) will be debated for decades to come, and that is not the purpose of this article. So for now, we’ll leave the sociology to the sociologists.

What concerns us is feminism’s effect on Catholic women in western cultures, particularly those in English-speaking nations. The most noticeable effect in such nations was the rapid disappearance of the chapel veil from mass. Almost overnight the veil was gone. This was accompanied by the release of the new Code of Canon Law in 1983, which no longer mentioned chapel veils. Since the new Code of Canon Law abrogated the older code, it was assumed by many that the custom of veiling was also abrogated, simply because it was no longer mentioned. That combined with feminist influences on Catholic women in western nations led to the popular misconception that veiling is now optional, and women are no longer required to do it."