Vatican acts on reports of monks staging lap dancer show and running limo service
From the Guardian (UK): Pope ousts 'loose living' monks of Rome's Santa Croce monastery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...ose-monks-rome
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It sounds like something out of Father Ted: a renowned monastery in Rome where monks staged concerts featuring a lap-dancer-turned-nun and opened a hotel with a 24-hour limousine service has been shut down by the pope.
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"An inquiry found evidence of liturgical and financial irregularities as well as lifestyles that were probably not in keeping with that of a monk,"
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In 2009 Anna Nobili, a nightclub dancer who became a nun, was invited to perform her "holy dance" before an audience including archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Vatican's cultural department. For her performance Nobili, who says she uses dance as a form of prayer, lies spread-eagled in front of the altar clutching a crucifix or twists and turns as in pole-dancing routines.
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I've heard of Brides of Christ but this is silly. Betcha the Cardinal found it really cultural...::)
Ooo-kaayyy... so it's a collection garter instead of a collection plate? /:O (I dunno... maybe this could help build back attendance at services!) It's probably just oversensationalized but I so want it to be literally true ;D
Re: Vatican acts on reports of monks staging lap dancer show and running limo service
Haha this is funny!
I know that at various times in the Middle Ages there were nunneries that were whorehouses, Popes that attended orgies in the hills outside Rome and had illegitimate kids, pimp monks, and so forth.
It would have been quite interesting to see what kind of dancing she did for the brethren, that description was intriguing but brief.
Re: Vatican acts on reports of monks staging lap dancer show and running limo service
Having become a devout Catholic again I can tell you that priests and nuns are far from prudes.
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i find the phrase "pimp monks" to be rather catchy.
Re: Vatican acts on reports of monks staging lap dancer show and running limo service
Uh-Oh Bid Daddy's home and he's puttin' a stop to these shananigans!
ROFL collection garter and pimp monks!!!
Re: Vatican acts on reports of monks staging lap dancer show and running limo service
"Lap-dancer-turned-nun"? I swear this was on Glee a few weeks ago.
Re: Vatican acts on reports of monks staging lap dancer show and running limo service
Ahhhh what ever happened to the good old days of pagan religions with temple whores? *siiiiiigh*