... ability to match pitch. Rehearsals for the choir were regular, but appearances in the liturgy were infrequent. We had cassocks, I think, dark red, with white cottas or surplices over them, and red skullcaps. I ... Mass, laid down the pattern for my spirituality to this day. Every week I saw people wearing cassocks and surplices, doing special things in a special part of the church; every week I ...

... beauty of the solemn high Mass and its accompanying chant, incense and ceremony. Priests in cassocks and sisters in habits are again common; traditionalist societies like the Institute of Christ the King are ... of "meaning" for its participants. Wolfe may claim that "priests in cassocks and sisters in habits are again common," but he neglects to mention the fact that priests and ...

... , I am having dinner with my dearest wolfraven80, and this weekend I shall be sewing a few sets of robes to take my mind off the delay. These will be robes of the non-trailing kind, to be worn over cassocks. I shall use polar (very warm), wool (warm and elegant), and a light polyester (for spring and summer). I shall also update "Darkest before dawn" and catch up with robed_embrace. I ...

... of having a Brit exclaim "blimey!" For the record, priests: are not all Irish, not all alcoholics, not all pedophiles. They do not: only watch religious tv, read only theology, only wear cassocks. They all, however, have bad taste in shoes and cars. I'm not sure why. (n.b.: this is not by means me being a sensitive former catholic. it's me being annoyed at lazy writing.) --why ...

... an overpass walkway between chapel and main building and leaving chapel after Matins ,on way to breakfast, from time to time a friend John Boojamra and I would do somersaults with gravity and of course wearing cassocks as we had been from matins. I think Peter Scorer, now teaching at Exeter, joined us in this. John a good man, many hard things came in his life, though he enjoyed good things too, ...

Speaking of Cardinal Newman, I do not believe we ever shared these delightful images with our readers of George Cardinal Pell visiting Newman's Rooms in Birmingham earlier this year. Cardinal Pell at Newman's desk in Newman's preserved rooms The galero of Cardinal Newman with his cassocks seen in the background The private chapel of Newman

... of celibacy and the fact that, in your faith, even wanking is a sin—so don’t go thinking you can deal with your ongoing psycho-sexual frustrations by having a quick pull under your cassocks. But don’t think the right way to deal with your own fuck-ups is to seek to oppress me and others like me for the crime of being who we are, what we are, and in love. As for giving children ...

... has actually taken it upon herself to tell the bishops where the church really stands on this issue. (Is there Latin for chutzpah?) The point is, you can't have it both ways. Either you criticize the church for getting its cassocks dirty in the fight for health-care reform, in which case you also tell it to shut up when it condemns the death penalty, the war in Iraq and the persecution of ...

... we believe (I don’t but I wish I did) that after death the departed will be judged on their life and either reap a heavenly reward or be condemned to eternal damnation, then there must be many cassocks, habits and guimpes burning in the eternal flames. Didn’t they ever consider that? Or didn’t they ever believe in it anyway? Were they just perverted misfits who wanted a uniform ...

... of the others either faced forwards, ten boys on one side of the choir, ten on the other, or kept their eyes fixed on the director. They wore the full regalia, red, floor-length cassocks, white surplices. The men of the choir sounded like professional singers. I was impressed. After the prayers, including the Prayer of St Chrysostom, we all sang Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven, which once ...