Sorry I have been pretty absent from here of late. This story caught my eye. (Hat tip to Ad orientem)
That radicalism (of accepting a religious vocation) is, ironically, embodied by the wearing of the veil. Decreed unnecessary by Vatican II and shed happily by many older nuns, the headdress is for many of today's newcomers a desired accessory. "A lot of my older sisters would never wear the veil," says Sister Sarah Roy, 29, who is the only member of her Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria, Ill., to do so. (The others wear a simple dark dress adorned by a pin.) Though she admits "people just stare at you like you're a freak," she adds, "It's a trend with younger women wanting to wear the veil now."
Ironic, isn't it? Of course there is an inaccuracy in the quote above. I don't believe Vatican II decreed the veil unnecessary.
I went to elementary school at St. Catherine of Sienna in Norwood, MA during the 70's. We had Sisters of St. Joseph dressing in everything from full habit (only face visible); modified habit (veil but not fully covering hair); black veil and various colored dress; no veil, but black or blue dress; to practically everything/anything goes. But notice that vocations to the Sisters of St. Joseph dropped so far that I am not sure they even accept new vocations any more.
May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen
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