Father Z Answers the Tough Questions

From Father Z's blog:

From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

Do you think there should be a dress code for attending Mass? I am talking about girls and women wearing shorts and revealing tops and dresses? 

"It would be a bad idea to have a dress code at Holy Mass, especially one where girls and women would be required to wear shorts and revealing tops and dresses. If it were required for females to wear shorts and revealing tops and dresses, it would be very difficult to distinguish church from the supermarket, the mall, ball park, or almost any other venue.
As a priest, I might end up forgetting that I’m at church and, instead of reciting the prayers at the foot of the altar, I might start looking around for the concession stand. In colder climates, requiring shorts would be very difficult for those women who have become accustomed to wearing jeans, quilted jackets, and baseball caps, just like their brothers."

A couple of points - first of all, I added the pictures. Secondly, the word QUAERITUS means (according to the intertubes) : third-person singular present passive indicative of quaerō "he (she, it) is sought for" "he (she, it) is asked, he (she, it) is questioned" "he (she, it) is striven for" "it is missed, it is lacked" "he (she, it) is desired"