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Yeah. Since the days of early church history, it was a common practice for women in worship to cover their heads.

Across virtually all Christian denominations and centuries, the practice was observed.

Even in the Reformation, men like Luther and Calvin defended the practice.

Luther said, quote, the wife should put on a veil just as a pious wife is duty-bound to help bear her husband's accident, illness, and misfortune on account of the evil flesh, end quote.

Calvin, in his lengthy commentary on Corinthians, quote, speaking of verse 10 in 1 Corinthians 11,

in the term power, authority in the ESV, Paul means a token by which she declares herself

to be under the power of her husband, and it is a covering, whether it be a robe or a veil

or any other kind of covering. Calvin goes on to say that the veiling is not exclusively to be practiced by married women, but virgins also, quote,

for Paul looks beyond this to God's eternal law, which has made the female sex subject to the authority of men, end quote.

In the Catholic Church, even in 1917, the Code of Canon Law stated that, quote,

men in a church or outside a church, while they are assisting at sacred rights, shall be bareheaded.

Women, however, shall have a covered head and be modestly dressed, especially when they

approach the table of the Lord, end quote.

But then, by 1983, that statement had been removed. So what happened? Did the church

discover some new understanding of the exegesis for the biblical text of 1st Corinthians 11? Far from it.

What happened was feminism. As R.C. Sprold Jr. once put it, quote, I do know this, that until 50

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