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For example, if you think that Carthusian monks are required by law to wear their long habits when they work on their farms, driving tractors and operating other heavy farm machinery… think again. It flies in the face of common sense to think that proper law would oblige religious to wear their habits when this could get in the way of their work—so Carthusians are doing nothing wrong when they wear jeans, t-shirts and work-boots like other farm laborers, as they work in their fields.
And as the abovementioned canon Probably the best known example of a clerical religious institute without its own habit is the Society of Jesus Jesuits ; another is the Marians of the Immaculate Conception. These religious dress exactly like parish priests, generally because their founders, for various historical reasons, concluded that wearing ordinary clerical clothes would be more appropriate for their work—and this was okayed by the church authorities who approved their rule.
Just as all religious take vows of obedience, they all likewise take the vow of poverty c. It would make no sense for the Carthusian monks just mentioned to be wearing expensive designer jeans while doing their farm chores, or for sisters from institutes with no habits to dress in the latest fashions from upscale shops.
Needless to say, in the eyes of the laity out in the world this does not make a good impression at all—if anything, it leads laypeople to wonder what happened to the vow of poverty! There is a good reason why the dirty, patched and ragged habit of St. Francis still inspires respect in so many visitors to his basilica in Assisi, where it is reverently preserved in a glass case today.
During one especially brutal Roman summer, I ran into a sister who had removed the distinctive upper layer of her habit, and was thus working while wearing only her veil and under-dress. She shrugged indifferently. Asking permission is a simple matter, and a hallmark of religious life.
Now Rick has an answer to his question. What really matters is that members of religious institutes are wearing whatever their rule requires them to wear.
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Canon Law Made Easy. Many orders found that their founders had dressed modestly in the style of the day in order to best serve those around them.
Consequently, many orders did away with habit completely in the late s, while others got rid of stiff wimples in favor of simpler coverings. Still, some Catholics would prefer it if all women religious were habited, arguing that the habit sets the women apart and makes them stand-out more. Even unhabited sisters discuss whether sisters need to wear some sort of uniting symbol. The habit can create a divide among women religious themselves, often marking ideological differences.
Among Muslim women, there have been similar, though less codified negotiations around religious dress historically. In more recent history, Muslim women have seen their choice of devotional dress become the subject of almost constant debate and crusade, both from within and without.
Muslim women have heard it all: Take off the hijab. Put on the hijab. Your hijab is too low. Your hijab is too colorful. Your hijab is tied wrong. Where is your niqab? Never wear the niqab.
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