The news agency Rome Reports has compiled a short video highlighting “The worst-dressed priests in the world.” The images (amusing and appalling all) are from a blog called Bad Vestments (motto: Because Christian Worship Is Not Supposed to Be About You). The first-ever Bad Vestments Worst Vestment competition is now under way, and voting ends soon. You can choose your favorite among ten finalists (the Anglican Communion is well represented) via a post in the blog’s Comments section. My vote goes here.
Thursday, June 24, 2010, 3:27 PM
June 24th, 2010 | 3:58 pm
And here I’d been laboring under the delusion that those “Children of the World” vestments were as bad as it gets. Someone get the eye soap…
June 24th, 2010 | 4:51 pm
Wouldn’t you have to actually be a priest before qualifying for “World’s Worst-Dressed Priest”?
June 24th, 2010 | 9:31 pm
This will sound bad, but what self-respecting American male, who grew up playing sports, would trust people dressed like this with their spiritual lives? Or even take advice on life from them? I know there may not be a logical contradiction, but I cannot imagine a normal masculine guy respecting these people – and that includes me. No wonder they are losing members left and right.
June 25th, 2010 | 12:13 am
I may be a contender for “Worst Dressed Priest” but not while in vestments.
June 25th, 2010 | 2:21 am
“This will sound bad, but what self-respecting American male, who grew up playing sports, would trust people dressed like this with their spiritual lives?”
Apparently about 50% of the Amaerican voting public.
June 25th, 2010 | 1:06 pm
While some of the examples were clearly situations where the ordained ministers should have put their feet down (e.g., the clown “mass”), part of being “a member of all families yet belonging to none” is that sometimes your spiritual children have immature or bad taste, yet you have to wear what they make for you, because they are your children. In other words, a lot of these are the church equivalent of the bad ties that show up at offices right after Christmas and Fathers’ Day.
Now, whether it’s more shameful that the clergy of the churches involved have bad taste or that the women’s sewing circles do, I’m not sure.
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