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Opinion

The priest's tonsure

THE EAR - The Freeman
June 8, 2013 | 12:00am

PRIEST'S TONSURE. A member of a women's civic club suggests the restoration of the priest's tonsure to identify the priests as clerics. “Many of our priests today, especially the younger ones, can be mistaken as secular,” she said. (The tonsure is that spot on the backside of the priest's head often called by the uninitiated as pahak sa pari.)

MISTAKEN. The same woman civic clubber told an Ear informer that some priests moving around town are mistaken as “ulitawo” because there is no indication that they are priests. Before the Second Vatican Council, every priest had a tonsure (or “pahak”) on his head.

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