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Priest Scraps Nuns Beauty Contest
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Published: August 27, 2008
ROME - An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday that he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of the faithful and local religious authorities.
The Rev. Antonio Rungi had thought of the beauty contest to give nuns more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour. The "Miss Sister 2008" contest was supposed to start in September on a blog run by the priest, who is a theologian and schoolteacher from Naples.
But he changed his mind after seeing reports that suggested nuns would be metaphorically put on a catwalk.
The Associated Press
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