The clergy out of habit

Following the 1910 revolution, the leftist Administration in Portugal proclaimed that no religious person could walk around the streets wearing a habit or a cassock. Many of the clergy, including bishops, defied this order and ended up in prison. In...

Following the 1910 revolution, the leftist Administration in Portugal proclaimed that no religious person could walk around the streets wearing a habit or a cassock. Many of the clergy, including bishops, defied this order and ended up in prison.

In Malta no such proclamation has ever been officially issued but our clergy, be they monks or diocesan priests, went one better and many seem to be ashamed to be seen in public wearing a habit or cassock. Some don't even want to show their Christian calling.

And then the Archbishop talks of secularisation!

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