Italian priest cancels nuns' beauty pageant

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

ROME -- An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of the faithful and local religious authorities.

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