"thecatsred;c-17237187" wrote:
Nuns are not confined to the church, they can and have gone out into public many times, for various reasons.
Also do you mean to say this in a way that woman wearing headscarves or covering her hair, for any reason, should not be allowed in public?
I've seen many a soccer mom out in public wearing a cross on her neck, which is a symbol associated with a long and painful death. Much more sinister than a head covering in my opinion. Why is this OK and not a scarf?
It's really no different than seeing a man who just got a fresh cut covering his hair with a durag. It might not be for religious reasons, but his hair is still covered for his own purposes, of his own volition.
Just the same as women wearing a hijab.
I never seen nuns anywhere outside of Catholic churches or Catholic countries/provinces. I highly doubt they wear the wimple and robes out in public.. so I wouldn't even know if they are nuns..unless they would told me. Besides they mostly only wear the wimple/habit when they're doing prayer duties or in some cases healing people. Not out in public like the grocery store. Much like Islamic culture some orders of nuns wear the habit/wimple and some don't.