From the Guardian (UK): Pope ousts 'loose living' monks of Rome's Santa Croce monastery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…"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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Ooo-kaayyy... so instead of a collection plate there's a collection garter?
(I dunno... maybe this could help build back attendance at services)
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last commentGeez, monks being straight, and they get in trouble. Had young boys been giving LD's, it would've been no big deal.
The Rabbi asked "Out of what ?"