The Soutane: A Sign of the Avant-Garde of the New Clergy

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2010/08/soutane-is-sign-of-avant-garde-of-new.html ^ | 08/19/2010 | Tancred

[0beron]

Editor: The Soutane is a prayer.

An outer sign of the inner decay of the Presbyterium

Father Hendrick Jole in Interview: The Soutane is the sure sign of the avant-garde of the new clergy.

[kreuz.net] "I decided some years ago to wear the soutane," says the Mainz Priest, Father Hendrick Jolie, on Monday in an interview with Linz website, 'kath.net'.

Father Jolie sees the priestly robe in connection with Benedict XVI's approach to the "hermeneutic of continuity":

"The Pope maintains with this formula that there are not "two Churches" -- one before and one after the Council, rather one Roman Catholic Church."

[Yudan]

Good for him. I’m Orthodox and all our clergy wear cassocks. As a matter of fact, most of them wear full beards as well. Exceptions here include some heirarchs who came over in the 60s and did their best to look “American.”

Priests ARE supposed to stand out. The faithful SHOULD be able to spot a priest quickly.

[0beron]

Amen to that!

[paterfamilias]

I am embarassed to admit that I did not know that “Soutane” is the correct term for what I have always called a cassock.

I agree that our religious should stop trying to be “relevant” to the culture; rather, they should set themselves apart from this sordid world as a symbol of what we, their flock, should be aspiring to.