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COMMENTARY: The evolution of the fiddleback chasuble offers a glimpse into how function and fashion shaped liturgical garments.
Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina, has become the lightning rod in the latest wrinkle of the liturgy wars. The initial issue was diocesan policies toward the traditional Latin Mass, but the controversy expanded after the draft of a document on diocesan liturgical norms going far beyond the Latin Mass was leaked and became public.
The document contained a laundry list of practices and rubrical prescriptions Bishop Martin wanted to impose because he believed they were entailed by the liturgical vision of the Second Vatican Council. Whether some of them actually are is a matter for discussion, but there was one that might seem strange to the average Catholic: the shape of chasubles.
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Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina, has become the lightning rod in the latest wrinkle of the liturgy wars. The initial issue was diocesan policies toward the traditional Latin Mass, but the controversy expanded after the draft of a document on diocesan liturgical norms going far beyond the Latin Mass was leaked and became public.
The document contained a laundry list of practices and rubrical prescriptions Bishop Martin wanted to impose because he believed they were entailed by the liturgical vision of the Second Vatican Council. Whether some of them actually are is a matter for discussion, but there was one that might seem strange to the average Catholic: the shape of chasubles.
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The Surprising History of the ‘Fiddleback’ Chasuble
COMMENTARY: The evolution of the fiddleback chasuble offers a glimpse into how function and fashion shaped liturgical garments.
