Author Topic: The reason for the never-ending modesty debates (Read 3293 times)

Sede Catholic · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2012, 07:23:22 PM »

Women were almost entirely covered from head to toe, and their entire arms were also covered, for most of the last two thousand years.
The Christian period of history.

That proper Catholic modesty only really stopped in the twentieth century.

The century of Apostasy should not be used as a guide for how women should dress.

Women should dress today as modestly as they did in the past.

Anything else is moral laxity.

insidebaseball · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2012, 07:39:42 PM »

True Sede, modesty in dress has fallen off to a shocking degree. Most of these discussions remind me of a black preacher who will always get alot of amens from his audience. I think modern fashion is an effect of the loss of faith, and not the cause. So unless we are willing to do something to convert folks thru our actions then words are meaningless. Any trained monkey can repeat what he just read. Thats what college is for.

Sede Catholic · « **Reply #7 on:** October 23, 2012, 02:49:15 AM »

Quote from: insidebaseball

...I think modern fashion is an effect of the loss of faith, and not the cause.

Yes, it is the loss of faith which has led to the loss of true Catholic modesty among Catholic women.

shin · « **Reply #8 on:** October 23, 2012, 03:07:26 AM »

Quote from: Sede Catholic

Women were almost entirely covered from head to toe, and their entire arms were also covered, for most of the last two thousand years.
The Christian period of history.

That proper Catholic modesty only really stopped in the twentieth century.

The century of Apostasy should not be used as a guide for how women should dress.

Women should dress today as modestly as they did in the past.

Anything else is moral laxity.

What it is like to live as Christians in a Christian society we are completely cut off from, and floating freely in a world of illusions instead.

But at least, the information on what it is to live this Christian life still exists, though it has to be carefully searched for, rather like archaelogists sifting through the ruins -- or ever so rarely found, in lives, lived by the most devout.

Sede Catholic · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2012, 12:17:14 PM »

Guidance on how to live as Catholics should live, can be found in the lives of the Saints.

We should read the lives of the Saints, and then try to live like them.