People: Anti-Halo

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven. For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn: but if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.—I Corinthians, 11: 5-6.

Following St. Paul's admonition to the Corinthians, the Roman Catholic Church enjoins its womenfolk to cover their heads at worship, if only with a shawl or handkerchief. Last week the Vicar General of the Catholic...

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