[Lost Sheep McUinnean]

Not suprised in the slightest.

Pope shuts down Rome 'dancing monastery'

Sister Nobili became famous for performing her modern Holy Dance
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• 'Lap-dancing nun' performs for Church

Pope Benedict XVI has shut down a famous monastery in Rome because of antics which included dances performed by a former lap-dancer turned nun and financial difficulties.
A Vatican spokesman said it was being closed because of "financial and liturgical irregularities".
The Cistercian monks based at the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme church are being transferred to other churches in Italy, Italian media reports say.
They reportedly racked up large debts.
"An inquiry found evidence of liturgical and financial irregularities as well as lifestyles that were probably not in keeping with that of a monk," said Father Ciro Benedettini, a Vatican spokesman.
The ban was adopted in March following the inquiry, but had not yet been made public, reports said.
The nun at the centre of the controversy, Anna Nobili, spent many years working in Italian nightclubs.
After becoming a nun, she began performing what she called The Holy Dance in a performance at the monastery in front of senior Catholic clerics including Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Vatican's cultural department.
Several years ago, she swapped her old life for the Church, after a visit to the shrine of St Francis in Assisi, a place of pilgrimage for millions of Catholics in Umbria.
Santa Croce is one of Rome's oldest and most prestigious churches, and was built around a chapel dating back to the 4th Century.

And some wonder why it's the Whore of Babylon?


Judges 19:2And his concubine played the WHORE against him, and went away from him vnto her fathers house to Bethlehem Iudah, and was there foure whole moneths.

Leviticus 21:9And the daughter of any Priest, if she profane her selfe, by playing the WHORE, she profaneth her father: shee shall be burnt with fire.

Revelation 17:15And he saith vnto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the WHORE sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

Revelation 17:16And the ten hornes which thou sawest vpon the beast, these shall hate the WHORE, and shall make her desolate, and naked, and shall eate her flesh, and burne her with fire.


Just more proof of what we already know, and should be thankful we are not.

YIC, McU.

[DDM1985]

Lap-dancing nuns...



Now, I've heard it all!

What's next, racecar-driving rabbis?

I've always wondered what they did with the leftover Eucharist wine... now, I know: they save it for Happy-Hour at the Sisters of the Strip convent and night-club!

(Ba-dum! *cymbal crashes*)

[Jo Freddie]

Is this one of the monks?

[Lost Sheep McUinnean]

For once your sarcasmic mockery is actually attuned to the gravity of the topic BologneseBeard.

[Jo Freddie]

Midnight Mass?