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修女是天主教中离家进修会的女教徒，通常要发三愿（即“绝财”、“绝色”及“绝意”），她们从事祈祷和协助神父进行传教的工作。
提起“修女”二字，你脑海中浮现出什么印象？满面沧桑、一脸冷酷、不食人间烟火的老妇人？
现在，有人要向大家证明，这种传统印象是不准确的。
修女是天主教中离家进修会的女教徒，通常要发三愿（即“绝财”、“绝色”及“绝意”），她们从事祈祷和协助神父进行传教的工作。
提起“修女”二字，你脑海中浮现出什么印象？满面沧桑、一脸冷酷、不食人间烟火的老妇人？
现在，有人要向大家证明，这种传统印象是不准确的。
A rather open-minded Italian priest is running a beauty contest for nuns.
The 1)pageant, which is the 2)brainchild of Father Antonio Rungi, is intended to challenge the stereotype of the nun as plain at best and
3)grotesque at worst. Father Antonio is expecting 1,000 4)habit-clad lovelies to line up and display their gorgeousness¡ªalthough not too much of it. Any unspeakable 5)pervs hoping for details of the blessed bikini round should stop reading now¡ªthe best you can hope for from the 6)parade of sisters is loosened hair.
“Do you really think nuns are all 7)wizened, funereal old ladies?” questioned the enterprising priest. “Today it’s not like that any more, thanks to an injection of youth and 8)vitality brought to our
country by foreign girls.” He wants to show the world that nuns have “physical and spiritual beauty”,
although of course he considers “inner beauty” to be most important. The contest aims to show that “there is... such a thing as a 9)chaste ideal, which comes from the heart and the soul, and has a beneficial effect on those who come into contact with it”.
The Sister Italia contest is to run online to begin with, but Father Antonio wants to see it emerge into the real world thereafter. Contestants must be between 18 and 40, and can be 10)novices or full members of an order. They can also be from outside Italy¡ªnuns from Africa and Brazil especially are “really very, very pretty”, apparently.
The idea came from the nuns themselves, Father Antonio insists, and they are 11)keen to participate. Each will be required to submit a photograph along with details about herself and her daily life as well as her spiritual development.
The first 12)batch of 13)scrumptious nuns will grace the priest’s blog at the start of September. The latest post appears to be Father Antonio’s reaction to the inevitably 14)smirky press coverage of the beauty contest (how 15)tawdry of them, we shall have no part of it) and the perhaps even more inevitable
frowning from unimpressed Catholics.
“I have had some emails from Christians who perhaps have not grasped the 16)evangelizing spirit of the initiative, or the
potential of the internet, which is a marvellous tool for spreading
the Christian message,” the priest said. “Unfortunately, some people still have a closed mentality.”
Happily, Father Antonio hasn’t let the 17)naysayers put him off. According to Google’s accurate translation of his blog, he
18)defiantly concludes: “If a blog unit where the nuns told you can almost compete in goodness, love and service to life and goodness of men roll by any party. “ We can all learn a little something from that.
Boot note
Alas, according to 19)Reuters it’s all off 20)as of 26 August 2008, due to Father Antonio’s less than open-minded 21)superiors and too much tawdry
22)sniggering/angry mud-slinging from other
quarters. “My superiors were not happy,” said Father Antonio. “The local 23)bishop was not
happy, but they did not understand me either.”
“It was not at all my intention to put nuns on the catwalk.”
Sorry, Father.
一位思想相当前卫的意大利神父要举办一场修女选美大赛。
这场选美是意大利天主教神父安东尼奥•伦吉的神来之笔，旨在改变人们对修女的传统印象——“平淡无奇”算是好的评价了，差的可谓“丑陋古怪”。安东尼奥神父希望有1000名修女参赛，展示她们姣好的一面——但也不能展露过多。那些希望有一群身穿性感比基尼的美女让他们看个够的色鬼可以就此打住了——这场修女选美里面，她们最多只会把头发披下来而已。
“你真的认为修女全是干瘪阴郁的老太太？”这位颇有魄力的神父质疑道。“现在已经不再是那个样子，多亏那些外国女孩的加入，给修女形象注入了青春和活力。”他要向世人展示其实修女们“秀外慧中”，尽管他认为“内在美”更为重要。选美旨在告诉大家“世界上有一种叫做‘贞洁完美’的典范，它来自心灵与灵魂，与之接触，会令人受益匪浅。”
这场名为“意大利修女”的选美先在网上进行，但安东尼奥神父希望不久以后能将选美舞台搬到现实。参赛者的年龄须在18至40岁之间，可以是修道会中的见习修女，也可以是正式修女。非意大利籍的修女也可以参加——显然，来自非洲、尤其是巴西的修女“真的非常非常漂亮”。
安东尼奥神父坚称，这个想法源自修女本身，而且她们都渴望参加比赛。参赛选手除了要上报个人资料、日常生活和修道进展方面的详情外，还要提交一张照片。
第一批修女佳丽会在九月初登上神父的个人博客。对于修女选美大赛，媒体报道不免有点讪笑“真俗气！我们才不要这样呢。”也许，更难免的是，天主教徒们不但不为所动，还会大皱眉头。神父博客上最新的一篇文章看来是他对这些态度的回应。
“我收到了一些基督教徒发来的电子邮件，他们也许还没领会我发起这次活动的精神要旨，或者互联网的潜力，其实互联网在传播基督教教义方面是个有力的工具，”神父说道，“但很遗憾，有些人的思想还相当闭塞。”
值得庆幸的是，安东尼奥神父没有因反对的声音而终止选美活动。根据谷歌对神父个人博客的“准确”翻译，神父大胆宣称：“如果有一个博客，修女们在上面说，你几乎可以和她们就善良、爱心、人生奉献方面一比高低，以及众人的善心。”从中，我们都能领略到那么一点点意味了吧。
后记
我的天！据路透社报道，2008年8月26日那天，修女选美大赛被取消了，碍于那些不太开明的修道院长老，以及各界铺天盖地的冷嘲热讽和怒斥愤毁。“我所在修道院的那些长老们不高兴，”安东尼奥神父说道，“这里的主教也不高兴，但他们没理解我的初衷。”
“我根本无意给修女们安排T台秀。”
抱歉了，神父安东尼奥。
提起“修女”二字，你脑海中浮现出什么印象？满面沧桑、一脸冷酷、不食人间烟火的老妇人？
现在，有人要向大家证明，这种传统印象是不准确的。
修女是天主教中离家进修会的女教徒，通常要发三愿（即“绝财”、“绝色”及“绝意”），她们从事祈祷和协助神父进行传教的工作。
提起“修女”二字，你脑海中浮现出什么印象？满面沧桑、一脸冷酷、不食人间烟火的老妇人？
现在，有人要向大家证明，这种传统印象是不准确的。
A rather open-minded Italian priest is running a beauty contest for nuns.
The 1)pageant, which is the 2)brainchild of Father Antonio Rungi, is intended to challenge the stereotype of the nun as plain at best and
3)grotesque at worst. Father Antonio is expecting 1,000 4)habit-clad lovelies to line up and display their gorgeousness¡ªalthough not too much of it. Any unspeakable 5)pervs hoping for details of the blessed bikini round should stop reading now¡ªthe best you can hope for from the 6)parade of sisters is loosened hair.
“Do you really think nuns are all 7)wizened, funereal old ladies?” questioned the enterprising priest. “Today it’s not like that any more, thanks to an injection of youth and 8)vitality brought to our
country by foreign girls.” He wants to show the world that nuns have “physical and spiritual beauty”,
although of course he considers “inner beauty” to be most important. The contest aims to show that “there is... such a thing as a 9)chaste ideal, which comes from the heart and the soul, and has a beneficial effect on those who come into contact with it”.
The Sister Italia contest is to run online to begin with, but Father Antonio wants to see it emerge into the real world thereafter. Contestants must be between 18 and 40, and can be 10)novices or full members of an order. They can also be from outside Italy¡ªnuns from Africa and Brazil especially are “really very, very pretty”, apparently.
The idea came from the nuns themselves, Father Antonio insists, and they are 11)keen to participate. Each will be required to submit a photograph along with details about herself and her daily life as well as her spiritual development.
The first 12)batch of 13)scrumptious nuns will grace the priest’s blog at the start of September. The latest post appears to be Father Antonio’s reaction to the inevitably 14)smirky press coverage of the beauty contest (how 15)tawdry of them, we shall have no part of it) and the perhaps even more inevitable
frowning from unimpressed Catholics.
“I have had some emails from Christians who perhaps have not grasped the 16)evangelizing spirit of the initiative, or the
potential of the internet, which is a marvellous tool for spreading
the Christian message,” the priest said. “Unfortunately, some people still have a closed mentality.”
Happily, Father Antonio hasn’t let the 17)naysayers put him off. According to Google’s accurate translation of his blog, he
18)defiantly concludes: “If a blog unit where the nuns told you can almost compete in goodness, love and service to life and goodness of men roll by any party. “ We can all learn a little something from that.
Boot note
Alas, according to 19)Reuters it’s all off 20)as of 26 August 2008, due to Father Antonio’s less than open-minded 21)superiors and too much tawdry
22)sniggering/angry mud-slinging from other
quarters. “My superiors were not happy,” said Father Antonio. “The local 23)bishop was not
happy, but they did not understand me either.”
“It was not at all my intention to put nuns on the catwalk.”
Sorry, Father.
一位思想相当前卫的意大利神父要举办一场修女选美大赛。
这场选美是意大利天主教神父安东尼奥•伦吉的神来之笔，旨在改变人们对修女的传统印象——“平淡无奇”算是好的评价了，差的可谓“丑陋古怪”。安东尼奥神父希望有1000名修女参赛，展示她们姣好的一面——但也不能展露过多。那些希望有一群身穿性感比基尼的美女让他们看个够的色鬼可以就此打住了——这场修女选美里面，她们最多只会把头发披下来而已。
“你真的认为修女全是干瘪阴郁的老太太？”这位颇有魄力的神父质疑道。“现在已经不再是那个样子，多亏那些外国女孩的加入，给修女形象注入了青春和活力。”他要向世人展示其实修女们“秀外慧中”，尽管他认为“内在美”更为重要。选美旨在告诉大家“世界上有一种叫做‘贞洁完美’的典范，它来自心灵与灵魂，与之接触，会令人受益匪浅。”
这场名为“意大利修女”的选美先在网上进行，但安东尼奥神父希望不久以后能将选美舞台搬到现实。参赛者的年龄须在18至40岁之间，可以是修道会中的见习修女，也可以是正式修女。非意大利籍的修女也可以参加——显然，来自非洲、尤其是巴西的修女“真的非常非常漂亮”。
安东尼奥神父坚称，这个想法源自修女本身，而且她们都渴望参加比赛。参赛选手除了要上报个人资料、日常生活和修道进展方面的详情外，还要提交一张照片。
第一批修女佳丽会在九月初登上神父的个人博客。对于修女选美大赛，媒体报道不免有点讪笑“真俗气！我们才不要这样呢。”也许，更难免的是，天主教徒们不但不为所动，还会大皱眉头。神父博客上最新的一篇文章看来是他对这些态度的回应。
“我收到了一些基督教徒发来的电子邮件，他们也许还没领会我发起这次活动的精神要旨，或者互联网的潜力，其实互联网在传播基督教教义方面是个有力的工具，”神父说道，“但很遗憾，有些人的思想还相当闭塞。”
值得庆幸的是，安东尼奥神父没有因反对的声音而终止选美活动。根据谷歌对神父个人博客的“准确”翻译，神父大胆宣称：“如果有一个博客，修女们在上面说，你几乎可以和她们就善良、爱心、人生奉献方面一比高低，以及众人的善心。”从中，我们都能领略到那么一点点意味了吧。
后记
我的天！据路透社报道，2008年8月26日那天，修女选美大赛被取消了，碍于那些不太开明的修道院长老，以及各界铺天盖地的冷嘲热讽和怒斥愤毁。“我所在修道院的那些长老们不高兴，”安东尼奥神父说道，“这里的主教也不高兴，但他们没理解我的初衷。”
“我根本无意给修女们安排T台秀。”
抱歉了，神父安东尼奥。