[Magdalen] Church denies First Communion to fashion-loving girl because she wanted to wear a suit - The Washington Post

[Joseph Cirou]

Northern Indiana (St. John's INdiana) is in the wider metropolitan area of Chicago, but they don't think  like the Archdiocese. I have a friend who is/was the priest in charge in Crown Point. (He was Georgia's confirmation teacher in Deerfield--we've kept up since 1970. He was quick to tell me the Crown Point (county seat of Lake Cty INdiana) was very different from not so far over the state line in Indiana. Then in some ways the RC church is more conservative now than it was in the 60's and 70's. Some of that means that the tawdriness of the    
liturgy  in the immediate Post Vatican era is not so bad but some RC's have regained their traditional intransigence. I would like a combination of the taste of Benedict with the good sense of Francis--which I have found in many of the Episcopal Churches at which I play.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 12, 2017 6:17 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: [Magdalen] Church denies First Communion to fashion-loving girl	because she wanted to wear a suit - The Washington Post
>
>What???
>I keep thinking the repressive RC institution of my youth was gone but it's naaat...
>Lynn 
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/10/12/church-denies-first-communion-to-fashion-loving-girl-because-she-wanted-to-wear-a-suit/?utm_term=.7c38da12123f&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1