[Ansteorra] Veiling

[Maria Buchanan]

You MUST be talking about an Orthodox Catholic church.  I have never heard of a RC church in America denying communion to a woman who didn't have her hair covered.  
I probably should have mentioned that earlier.  I was raised RC not Orthodox.  They are different churches.  Also Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and Ukranian Orthodox are all different churches - three different versions of the Orthodox church.
I've never been to Italy so I don't know about the churches there.  I'd have to take your word for it Coblaith.  I can definitely see it happening though.  The RC church in Italy is more traditional than it is here in the US.  So that wouldn't surprise me.  I do remember when I went to the Ukranian Orthodox church for a little while, I was not required to wear a head covering.  
It's an interesting conversation.  Please let me know which church you went to.  I'd be very interested to know.  I haven't actually been to a RC church except for funerals in over 10 years.
Maria


--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Chelsea Durham <baby_sis_83 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Chelsea Durham <baby_sis_83 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Veiling
> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 7:24 AM
> I was told by people that I met that it wasn't exactly
> REQUIRED because there were women there that obviously knew
> what they were doing who didn't have their hair covered.
> However, along with liking the idea, and wanting to blend in
> at my next mass, I read that women can be completely denied
> communion. 
> 
> -Lady Grainne Kathleen NicPadraig MacDaniel 
> 
> Son, I never knew there was part of me missing until you
> were born.  
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > All women entering certain Catholic churches are
> required to cover 
> > their hair (as in, someone will turn you back at the
> door if your head 
> > is bare), and the practice is strongly encouraged in
> many others.  
> > Female tourists in Italy are often warned by their
> guides to carry a 
> > scarf of some sort with them when they go to look at
> art and monuments, 
> > to ensure they get a chance to see the inside of all
> the cathedrals, 
> > basilicas, etc. they want to see.
> > 
> > It might be that the church you visited is one of
> those that doesn't 
> > actually bar the entrance of bare-headed women but
> does quietly but 
> > firmly suggest to anyone who comes back more than once
> or twice that it 
> > would be more appropriate if they put on a shawl or
> something.
> > 
> > 
> > Coblaith Muimnech
> > <mailto:Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>
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