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Subject: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/25/08 at 5:19 pm
This cracked me up.
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080825/NEWS04/808250348
Priest organizes online beauty contest for nuns
August 25, 2008
The Associated Press
ROME — An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.
The "Miss Sister 2008" contest will start in September on a blog run by the Rev. Antonio Rungi and will give nuns from around the world a chance to showcase their work and their image.
"Nuns are a bit excluded, they are a bit marginalized in ecclesiastical life," Rungi told The Associated Press after Italian media carried reports of the idea. "This will be an occasion to make their contribution more visible."
Rungi, a theologian and schoolteacher from the Naples area, said that visitors to his site will have a month to "vote for the nun they consider a model."
Nuns will fill out a profile including information about their life and vocation as well as a photograph. It will be up to them to choose whether to pose with the traditional veil or with their heads uncovered.
"We are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits," Rungi said by telephone from his town of Mondragone. "But being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is a gift from God, and we mustn't hide it."
Rungi said the idea was first suggested to him by nuns with whom he regularly prays and works. He hopes there will be dozens of submissions once the Web site is started.
The contest drew criticism from the association of Catholic teachers.
"It's an initiative that belittles the role of nuns who have dedicated themselves to God," the group's president, Alberto Giannino, told Italy's ANSA news agency on Sunday.
Cat
Subject: Re: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: Red Ant on 08/25/08 at 6:10 pm
This needs a song:
Nuns!...
Aren't the homeliest members
of the Cath'lic church....
You...
Can vote your fav'rite one
Of these 'ho'-liest models
With a website search!
- Three God Night
:D
Ant
Subject: Re: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: midnite on 08/25/08 at 7:09 pm
This is a good thing. The nuns will be sexy so the priests attention is on the nuns, not the choirboys!!!!
Subject: Re: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: ladybug316 on 08/26/08 at 8:17 am
This is a good thing. The nuns will be sexy so the priests attention is on the nuns, not the choirboys!!!!
Or maybe the sisters can dress up like little boys!
Subject: Re: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: wildcard on 08/26/08 at 10:36 am
I wish I had a little more parody juice in me right now. hmm.. White Wedding Day or another song with the word sister. Maybe Sister Suffrage.
Subject: Re: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/29/08 at 5:41 am
I went to an all girls Catholic boarding school for two years. (high school) The thought of a beauty contest for nuns makes my skin crawl.
Subject: Re: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: danootaandme on 09/01/08 at 6:23 am
This is just so.....un-nunnish, "you can be pretty and be a nun, too" ???
But it does put me in mind of this one
http://www.elvisinfonet.com/image-files/LYouEPDHx.jpeg
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Hart
Subject: Re: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: Tam on 09/05/08 at 1:42 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26379900/
Dang! Looks like it has been cancelled!!! :( ;D
Subject: Re: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: Marian on 10/24/08 at 1:36 pm
Or maybe the sisters can dress up like little boys!
:o :o :o :o :o :o
Subject: Re: Beauty In A Habit?
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 10/24/08 at 6:03 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26379900/
Dang! Looks like it has been cancelled!!! :( ;D
The Roman Catholic hierarchy consist of a bunch of old stick in the muds. Inter beauty my eye. They just didn't want to sexualize them. The same problems with celibacy that priest have also applies to nuns. Most of the nuns I knew growing up have either died or left the convent and now have families.