May God bless and defend anyone and everyone who is zealous for His true Church, the Catholic Church under the valid Bishop of Rome.
Please understand I do not mean this as any defense of any person, neither do I mean to incite division.
In my layperson's point of view, it makes perfect sense to prohibit seminarians from wearing cassocks anywhere where the seminarian may become engaged with laypeople, such as myself. As a layman, seeing a man wearing a cassock, I may naturally assume the wearer is a Priest, which, of course, a seminarian is not. This could, quite easily, lead to my revealing confidences which an un-ordained man is unprepared to hear, as well as leading me, the layman, to gain invalid confidences from my interaction with the cassock-wearing man.
To me it seems that that alone is a valid reason to prohibit seminarians from wearing cassocks in any public place.
May God, in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, bless, protect, and defend each and every person who reads these …
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