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2008-08-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Italian priest to hold world's first online beauty pageant for nuns

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The highlight is the wet nun wearing the habit contest. I expect the Catholics to win but Eastern Orthodox may grab the headlines!

Posted by JitterBug 2008-08-26 00:49|| 2008-08-26 00:49|| Front Page Top

Posted by JitterBug 2008-08-26 00:51|| 2008-08-26 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe they could make a calendar.

Posted by gorb 2008-08-26 03:11|| 2008-08-26 03:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Any opera singers? Or baton twirlers? The ones that do the flaming batons usually do the best.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-26 09:38|| 2008-08-26 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, one good thing is, when the judges ask what they want to do with their lives, they'll say - "To serve God, feed the hungry, tend to the sick and pray for the abandoned".

And they won't be lying either. . .

Posted by GORT 2008-08-26 10:50|| 2008-08-26 10:50|| Front Page Top

#6 The problem, GORT, is that they all give that same answer. So then it become contest of who has the nicest, uh, rosary beads.

Posted by Scott R 2008-08-26 13:24|| 2008-08-26 13:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Nonetheless, it is being called a beauty pageant; meaning parading them based on their beauty. Besides, the fact that one wouldnt 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 oldand if the message of beauty is not skin deep, then the priest seems to be lost here. It shouldnt make a difference whether nuns are young or old; its 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 shouldnt break Gods guidance in doing so.

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#8 JitterBug, please, please tell me that picture is a photoshop.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-26 14:23|| 2008-08-26 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Nope that's a real photo. Those stools they are sitting on have the stockings and legs.

And knowing the nuns that I do, I'd not be a bit surprised that they were very aware of the humorous picture they present sitting on those stools, and getting a bit of a laugh at it and themselves.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-26 14:52|| 2008-08-26 14:52|| Front Page Top

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