What one wears has no impact on what they do, very much including exercising their ministry.  Lay people do it all the time without collar or habit.  But of course you believe that wearing  a collar or habit somehow ups the sanctity of the men who wear them.  Probably most of our priest sexual abusers had a collar on when they seduced those young people. But I will remind you that we were originally talking about what clerics/religious wear at meetings and conferences such as the one reported in this article, not serving at the Vatican.  Yet, once again, rather then offering useful commentary or sharing thoughts directly related to the important issues at hand, you find some nit-picking item to pull us off-topic (and yes, I've been sucked into your hellish vortex here) and to create a bit more chaos, which is indeed your personal agenda, Rompecorazones.  So, I will do what I am mostly reluctant to do - put you on my Mute list alongside Pandora17.  Neither of you belong here anyway.