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ROME — An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday he had been misunderstood after it incurred protests.
The Rev. Antonio Rungi had thought of the contest to give nuns more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour. But he changed his mind about the “Miss Sister 2008” contest 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.”
