SKIRMISHER

Well, remember Father Antonio Rungi’s “Miss Sister 2008” contest due to begin online in September? That has been canceled.

The “Miss Sister 2008″ contest was supposed to start in September on a blog run by Rungi, a theologian and schoolteacher from the Naples area.

But he changed his mind after seeing reports that suggested nuns would be metaphorically put on a catwalk.

He said what he had in mind was not just external beauty but what he called “overall beauty.” “I wanted to make a blog on vocations, one where everybody could bring their own experiences,” Rungi said by telephone from his town of Mondragone, about 60 kilometres north of Naples.

“I wanted to create a showcase for the pastoral experience of nuns.”

“Instead, they made it look like it was a catwalk a la Miss Italy,” he said. “I have been misunderstood.”

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