The Catholic Church's Teaching on Priests and Clerical Dress

We have been amazed at how many times we have seen priests at various events and functions without the appropriate clerical dress. Last week, when we were out of town, we even saw a priest walk in to get ready for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in a golf shirt. As always, we decided to do some research and came across this wonderful article. It is written by two priests and it clearly explains the Church's teaching on the requirement of clerical dress for priests. It references the appropriate canon law, theology and even Papal teaching. Additionally, it dispels the many objections and excuses which are used to rationalize the priest not wearing the collar. We encourage everyone, priests and laypeople, to read it.