Nuns in Italy will be able to show the world God’s gift of beauty by sending their photos to priest Antonio Rungi (southern Italian diocese of Modragone) who will publish the photos online and visitors to his blog can vote on the photos.
"Miss Sister Italy", the first beauty pageant of its type to take place in Rome, aims to challenge the stereotype of old and sad nuns. Father Rungi said it was the nun’s idea and that he expects about 1,000 contestants.
"Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God," priest Rungi told a daily Italian newspaper. He continued explaining how beauty is not restricted to what we see on television and that young and vital foreign nuns will be participating.
"Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God"
have you seen most nuns... they haven't been gifted... atleast not with beauty, and probably not gifted with much of a brain so devote to much time to organized religion.... emphansis on organized.
why not have a beauty pegeant for the horribly disfigured... wouldn't be much worse with any of the nuns i've seen.
btw, someone needs to teach mr.rungi a thing or two about biology beauty is inheireted; nothing devine about it.... its a gift from your parents if anything.
It will be just a photo of the face as they will be wearing a habit. There would be some very beautiful ones indeed. Have South Americans, Asians, Europeans, Africans, island nations. I think there would be many beauties out there. Also good to see a face that has not been done by the cosmetic artists and air brushed later for pictures.
Mother Theresa had been beautiful. She gave her whole life to help the poor and downtrodden, but it means nothing because she was old and ugly. Right? /sarcasm
i have never... EVER once seen a beautiful nun... i think they went exitinct in the after the dark ages when people were taught uniformily to hide their beauty... i've only ever seen beautiful nun in a few movies/tv shows... never in real life... well except on halloween... sadly this is not a joke.
though as vizhatlan pointed out why would a beautiful women want to become a nun; you know as opposed to doing something even somewhat productive with their lives.
and its not the covering up that makes them ugly either... otherwise all those islamic women with their extensive overings wouldn't be beautiful, and many of them are. when i figure out what really seperates the two in terms of what makes them beautiful, i'll be sure to let you know...lol
here take these two nuns that will be in the beauty contest:
than your girlfriend without her make-up (assuming you have one, I don't know). Having interacted with a large number of nuns, I can tell you that many are rather comely, and could make their careers in supermodelling or acting, if they wanted. They become nuns because they believe in a higher calling, not because they are ugly.
i disagree with the whole Miss Nun thing as i think these women devoted their life to God and being vain or care about earthly things doesn't really fit with the nun image. However, what you are saying is too extremist. I don't know about nuns in your area, but in Europe and Africa (both from experience) some nuns are gorgous. I (a female) couldn't stop staring at spanish, egyptian and greek nuns when i met them. Evensome of the old nuns are not as you portray them. As for "productive", again i don't know bout nuns in your area, but all the nuns and monks(Orthodox everywhere, and catholic in African) i met devote their life to pray and help. This includes helping poor locals, making produce (cheese, yogurt, baskets), farming etc... You criticise people for following religion while you yourself assume all religions and their followers are bad. Life is not black and white, it is full of colours. Try to enjoy the diversity.
i dont nor can i travel the world to see all the different nuns of the world, i can only speak of the ones around here and seen on the news... and they are quite honestly uniformily not good looking.
