This IS stretching "reality TV and internet" to the limit for most of us who were treated to the gentle ministrations of the Sisters of Perpetual Pain in our childhoods, unless the ruler swinging, wimple wearing bullies of my and many children's nightmares have changed - a LOT over the years!
You, dear readers will select Miss Nun 2008 by voting on the website which Italian Fr Antonio Rungi will soon have up. Visitors will have one month to "vote for the nun they consider a model." Apparently I haven't darkened the door of a parish in far too many years, as I cannot feature it, unless it is a job modeling "no-break metal edged rulers" perhaps.
"But being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. external beauty is gift from God, and we mustn't hide it" says Rugli, whose cadre of hot prayer partners (and brides of Christ, may I remind them), planted the germ of this idea. "Miss" Nun indeed! Will they take off their wedding rings?
Apparently this event will be wimple-optional, so anything is possible.
The theory is that it will help break stereotypes held both by the public and within the church.
Far be it from me to nitpick, but doesn't it seem that the Catholic church has rung up quite a few stereotypes on the male side of the clergy in recent years...millions of dollars worth? Perhaps they should be running a "Gorgeous Hunk Priest, Bishop - but non sex-predator" category as well....just a thought.
Hot, Beautiful Nuns Need Your Vote. Italian Online Contest Breaks Stereotypes, Not Knuckles
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