Friday, December 19, 2008

Catholic culture: the canon...


The canon has the privilege of wearing the "rochet" (the white garment) as seen in the photo. A pity there's no canons in the U. S. of A.
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why are there no canons in America?

1:01 AM
Anonymous said...

No canons? What about those great Canons Regular of Premontre, the Norbertines of St. Michael's Abbey?
They wear rochets too.

1:51 AM
Anonymous said...

Did not a Council of Baltimore declare there would be no cathedral chapters of canons in the U.S.A. in the nineteenth cent?

5:23 AM
Unknown said...

there are canons in the usa

visit the canons regular of st john cantius in chicago

www.canons-regular.org
www.cantius.org
www.sanctamissa.org

2:21 PM
Anonymous said...

Cathedral Canons, Scott. Not the same thing as Canons Regular!

9:49 AM
A.R. said...

Really?? I didn't know that. We could lend some Italian canons: we have plenty of them. Each small town has at least a chapter of canons in its cathedral.
I think it is a nice way of rewarding elderly priests to make them canons, so to give them at least an important role, even if they can't work anymore: they can and must pray for the whole diocese!

2:52 AM

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