Francis Angry, "The Young Priests Buy Cassocks"
“It is enough to go to the ecclesiastical tailor shops in Rome to see the scandal (sic) of young priests trying on cassocks and hats, or albs and roquettes with lace,” Francis raged to the ex-synod on October 25.
Francis knows that the young priests in cassocks are the future while he belongs to the bygone 1960s. For Francis, "clericalism" is a "whip", a "scourge", a "form of worldliness" that defiles and damages the face of the Church. No one knows what he means by "clericalism".
Then, the dictator projected himself: “When clerics go beyond their ministry and mistreat the People of God, they disfigure the face of the Church with sexist and dictatorial attitudes.”
He enigmatically warned against his church becoming a “supermarket of salvation” where “priests are mere employees of a multinational.” This is the “great defeat to which clericalism is leading us.” What has "clericalism" to do with "employees of a multinational" or "supermarket …More
I love the black cassocks! As long as they remain pure to those black cassocks.
I like all seminarians to where the cassock. In France and much of Europe, it is known as the soutane. I do know for a fact, from cousins who went to Rome this Summer past, that it's the young priests and friars ( below 40) and some even older, that wear the "soutane", Roman saturno black hat, and their habits. They saw tons of friars of different Orders (one of the pictures they had were of about 12 young Trinitarin O.SS.T. friats with their beautiful white habits with red and blue cross. ) Lots of Franciscans. Even the old Franciscans in Rome wore the habit. LOts of Dominicans. Lots of young priests in cassocks. But the old ones, 60+, were there too...slumming around in grey, blue or black open neck clerical shirts, looking like slobs. They saw a few bishops in their proper dress walking around Rome, but also a few slobs in clerical shirts with a cross around their necks. They were old.
Excellent observation, I think there is a real desire with the youth to foster clerical discipline.