Camogie on skorts 2025, priests on shorts 1935

The story below is from The Southern Star newspaper, September 1935.

Reading the below item of news surely one is forced to think of the current controversy over the wearing or non-wearing of skorts in camogie games.
Did priests back then ever refer to boys or men being a 'disgrace to their sex'? The violence the priest uses in recommending ‘kicking them off the streets’. And who was going to kick them off the streets? Was he going to organise vigilante groups?
Note the journalist refers to ‘a powerful sermon’. I wonder how it was linked to the Gospel of the day?
And then we wonder. God help us.

Girls in Shorts

In the course of a powerful sermon on the Gospel of the day, at 12 o’clock Mass in Dunmanway, on Sunday, Rev. C Creed,C.C., said he noticed young girls wearing shorts when cycling through the town during the week. Such girls were a disgrace to their sex and ought to be ashamed of themselves. Parents are bound to exercise  better supervision over their children and not allow their daughters out in such scandalous fashion, and if they appeared again in such disgraceful attire they deserved to be kicked off the streets.