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Priest organizes nun beauty contest
Father Antonio Rungi said the Sister Italia contest is a strictly online venture but he expressed hope that high participation would allow the event to flourish into a full-fledged pageant, The Times of London reported Monday.
Rungi said the entrants, who must be between ages 18 and 40, would be judged primarily on "inner beauty" and would not be asked to wear swimsuits or any other revealing outfit. He said the contest is open to any novices or full members of an order, even if the order is not based in Italy.
"Do you really think nuns are all wizened, funereal old ladies? Today it's not like that any more, thanks to an injection of youth and vitality brought to our country by foreign girls," Rungi said.
He said some nuns from Africa and Latin America are "really very, very pretty. The Brazilian girls above all."
The priest said voting for the contest will begin next month.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 08/26/2008
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09-02-2008 23:41
Gloria wrote:
Guys seem to like this idea but women don't. I'm a woman and I don't think it would be good at all. It's defeating the whole purpose of why girls and women would choose this lifestyle in the first place. I also beleive this priest has ulterior motives.
09-02-2008 12:46
challeve wrote:
Nun Beauty Contest
This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard, and on every level extremely disturbing. Is this man truly a priest? The mere fact that he proposed this contest is very telling. Is he looking at the nuns in a less than chaste context? Evidently. I daresay that it he wants to look at women and judge them by their physical appearance he should leve the priesthood and get back out into the world. I think he's lost his way, totally.
09-02-2008 10:26
John U.K. wrote:
Nun beauty contest
I'd have liked to know what your opinion on the idea was Sandy.
Myself, it was an outrage, absolutely disgusting.
Even judging 'inner beauty' (which can't be seen to be judged anyway) this would have made losers of others. Rarely have I been so appalled by an idea.
Myself, it was an outrage, absolutely disgusting.
Even judging 'inner beauty' (which can't be seen to be judged anyway) this would have made losers of others. Rarely have I been so appalled by an idea.
08-30-2008 06:52
Howard wrote:
NUN BEAUTY CONTEST
I'M SURPRISED IT'S THEY HAVEN'T INCLUDED CHOIR BOYS.
08-28-2008 12:39
Sandy in Wisconsin wrote:
Just heard this morning on The Today Show (last hour with Hoda and Kathy Lee) that this has been canceled.
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