Okay, it was loaned.
My mum’s ex boyfriend thought watching horror movies was devil worship. Unfortunately mum is very easily influenced and never, ever disagreed with him. -.-
But as long as you’re not in the Scottish Highlands, you’ll probably be fine. Around here grown-ups don’t even dress up!! Wahh, I wanna move awaaay.
Actually, few nuns still dress up like “Nuns” any more. They just wear normal clothing. So you can put on a simple, conservative dress and then spend the rest of the evening telling people that you are dressed like a modern nun. Not much candy to be had for that, but then sometimes authenticty sucks.
I’d guess that 90% of my fellow Catholics would be amused, not offended, by a nun costume. If we could handle Sally Field’s Sister Bertrille flying over Puerto Rico in her habit, we can handle yours on the ground.
The doctrine of the immaculate conception does not refer to the virgin birth of Jesus. It refers to the birth of his mother Mary, by normal biological means, but with a soul “immaculate” of original sin. Don’t worry, most Catholics get it wrong, too.
**How about you dress as a nun, and get your most devout Catholic friend to go as a Wiccan priestess or whatever?
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Or…
Go as a Priest and have a friend go with you as a boy scout.
…of course, I’m pretty sure that one would offend people.
Quite true. A couple of weeks ago, though, I did see a nun in full uniform driving an old car in Des Moines. I remember thinking that you don’t see that very often anymore.
Speaking of which my grandfather bought an old car from a nun in our town at an auction( $300) for my sister. It was her first car and we always called it the nunmobile.
A bunch of stuffed animals sewed onto a robe would make a pretty good St. Francis of Assisi costume.
As a former good Catholic girl, I am not offended by costumes depicting nuns, priests, altar boys and so forth. But then I wanted to wear my old pediatric nurse uniform with the pastel teddybears and go out tonight as an evil nurse, a la I love kids, they’re crunchy and they taste good with ketchup. Alas, I have a bad cold and had to stay home.