Posted on 08/25/2008 8:23:01 AM PDT by traumer
An Italian priest says he is organising the world's first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour.
Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September.
"Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God," he told Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
He is asking nuns to send their photos to him, saying that internet users will then choose the winner.
Father Rungi stressed that nuns were not being invited to parade in bathing suits, saying it will be up to them whether they pose with the traditional veil or with their heads uncovered.
"This contest will be a way to show there isn't just the beauty we see on television but also a more discreet charm," the priest, who lives near the southern city of Naples, told the Corriere della Sera.
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Just don’t get in the habit.
Another example of a church going astray ...
...I can't think of any right now.
Forgetaboutit, the Pope will have Nun of this!
OK, what kind of meat does a priest eat on Friday?
This contest will be a way to show there isn't just the beauty we see on television but also a more discreet charm,"
Isn't he perpetuating the stereotype that you can't be old and still have "discrete charm"?
Another example of a human coming up with a wacky idea.
He is in no way a church, nor a spokesman for a church, he is one individual.
I guess if a Baptist, Methodist or Catholic commits murder, there goes the church? I think not.
Will they have a SWIMSUIT COMPETITION?
No, another example of a human within the Church going astray. The Church remains, as it always has been, pure and infallible.
I am hoping that you forgot to add the /s tag to your statement?
When & where do we vote???
Nonetheless, it is being called a beauty pageant; meaning parading them based on their beauty. Besides, the fact that one wouldn’t put priests up for the same purpose to see who is more innocently beautiful - sexism, in one of its more negative forms, still applies here.
The very fact that this article exists also seems to attack those who are old…and if the message of beauty is not skin deep, then the priest seems to be lost here. It shouldn’t make a difference whether nuns are young or old; it’s their service to God and their parishioners that counts.
Although I understand a desire by the church to promote Catholicism, and have people return to the church; like bingo - we shouldn’t break God’s guidance in doing so.
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Then I'm sorry for your misplaced hope.
I'm curious though, would you say that God was mistaken when He placed the Israelites in the desert only to have some of them begin to turn against Him? Or would you say that Jeanne d'Arc was mistaken when she never thought to turn her back on the Catholic Church despite some of it's human leaders choosing to plot against, and murder, her?
Moses and la Pucelle knew the truth.
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