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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Scanner : nuns</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nuns/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: nuns</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Britain's Sexual Hazing Rituals Apparently News to Some People...</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/09/britain-s-sexual-hazing-rituals-now-just-lame-predictable.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:172702</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=172702</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/09/britain-s-sexual-hazing-rituals-now-just-lame-predictable.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/08-15/hazing%201.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/08-15/hazing%201.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The most shocking part of this story is that parents and administrators still find it &amp;quot;shocking&amp;quot; that hazings are happening all over campus...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;According to the Sun, ahead of the curve on hot button issues like &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/02/girl-claims-to-have-slept-with-200-strangers-thanks-to-craig-s-list.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Craiglist sex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/12/12/vicar-happened-to-be-naked-when-he-fell-on-the-potato-with-his-ass.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;vicars with potatoes up their bungholes&lt;/a&gt;, breaks this incredible news story over the weekend:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;
Education chiefs were “horrified” as girls were snapped on their hands and 
knees using their mouths to roll condoms on bananas hanging from boys’ 
trousers.
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;
The girls belong to the Newnham Nuns — a drinking society at the all-female 
Newnham College.
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Stop right there. There are drinking societies... at college? Why... why did we not attend Newnham College?!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;[S]naps, taken last year, show an undergraduate proudly holding jugs 
filled with his own &lt;b&gt;VOMIT&lt;/b&gt; while two toffs are seen frolicking with 
midgets dressed as Oompa-Loompas from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 
film.&lt;/i&gt; [Emphasis added by the Sun.] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="article"&gt;
&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Other traditional booze society ceremonies include drinking a pint of water 
containing a live goldfish, downing gin and port filtered through a condom 
and staging a mass brawl.
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;
Hospital consultant Adrian Boyle said: “In the last ten years the number of 
female students coming in extremely drunk and incapable has shot up. More 
are being assaulted too.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Thank you, &amp;quot;hospital consultant&amp;quot; Boyle, for playing the part of Captain Obvious today. Then again, if parents are &amp;quot;shocked&amp;quot; that gals such as the one pictured above are involved in &amp;quot;drinking&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;playful hazing,&amp;quot; maybe we needed to hear from you after all...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2213124.ece?thesunisthere" target="_blank"&gt;the Sun&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight:bold;" class="article"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Related:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/02/do-you-drink-like-a-man.aspx"&gt;Do You Drink Like A Man?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/02/the-best-sendup-of-facebook-yet.aspx"&gt;The Best Sendup of Facebook Yet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/30/25-year-old-virgin-takes-us-one-step-closer-to-crazy-cat-lady-status.aspx"&gt;25-Year-Old Virgin Takes Us One Step Closer to Crazy Cat Lady Status&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/01/29/repeat-teen-abortions-on-the-rise-birth-control-still-despised-by-right-wingers.aspx"&gt;Repeat Teen Abortions on the Rise, Birth Control Still Despised By Right-Wingers &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=172702" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/condoms/default.aspx">condoms</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/drinking/default.aspx">drinking</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/fights/default.aspx">fights</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/britain/default.aspx">britain</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/hospital/default.aspx">hospital</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sexual+assault/default.aspx">sexual assault</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sexual+harassment/default.aspx">sexual harassment</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sexual+abuse/default.aspx">sexual abuse</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/drunk+people/default.aspx">drunk people</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nuns/default.aspx">nuns</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/hazing/default.aspx">hazing</category></item><item><title>Female Reverend Banned From Preaching After Drunken Swingers Weekend</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/11/12/female-reverend-banned-from-preaching-after-drunken-swingers-weekend.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:51:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:145822</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=145822</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/11/12/female-reverend-banned-from-preaching-after-drunken-swingers-weekend.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/11/08-15/nun.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/11/08-15/nun.jpg" border="0" height="763" width="324" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Because it&amp;#39;s real damn difficult to find a picture of a female in a sexy vicar&amp;#39;s costume... &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The Church of England has barred the Reverend Teresa Davis from practicing her craft for 12 years, following a tribunal that found her to have violated her vows.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The Reverend made the terrible mistake-- &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; of going to France and participating in a swingers weekend, &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; of showing up drunk at her church on a Sunday-- rather, for telling everyone she could get ahold of about all of it...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Mrs Davies was said to have told two church colleagues at a Christmas lunch in
2006 that she and her husband had spent holidays without their children in
the South of France, in an area that she said was noted for “the casual
exchange of sexual partners”.
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
The tribunal also heard that Mrs Davies, 37, and her husband had posted under
the name “Tess and Mick, Daventry” on swinging websites.
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Having sobered up enough to have a moment of clarity, Davies told another member of the clergy that maybe she had said too much. And indeed, although she admitted to the whole thing while facing the London tribunal, they were unforgiving.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;The tribunal said: “Clergy who commit sexual misconduct have to be dealt with
firmly and in a way which would protect those who could be harmed if the
respondent were otherwise allowed to remain in ministry.”
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;
It added that she still had no appreciation of the seriousness of the findings
against her, or of the damage caused.&lt;/i&gt; [&lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5134273.ece" target="_blank"&gt;Times Online&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Come on over stateside, Reverend. 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We seriously doubt it, &lt;a href="http://www.clusterstock.com/2008/8/median-household-income-rorschach-test-the-chart-that-may-decide-the-election" target="_blank"&gt;although this chart&lt;/a&gt; may make you think you&amp;#39;re making the same money you were then: nice try, thanks for (not) factoring in cost of living increases, dumbasses. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Charlize Theron at the DNC: &lt;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/celebrity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080827/en_celeb_eo/26172" target="_blank"&gt;No, I won&amp;#39;t get married&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Speaking of marriage: Are we upset or could we care less that this movie star got hitched?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/27/asia_argento_weds" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Asia Argento&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has wed in Tuscany, Italy.&lt;a title="more96645" class="" id="more96645" name="more96645"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; 
	&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The actress married director &lt;i&gt;Michele Civetta&lt;/i&gt; on Wednesday in a civil ceremony at the city hall in Arezzo. The 32-year-old daughter of Italian moviemaker Dario Argento was previously engaged to actors Michael Pitt and Vincent Gallo but she never married. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://rss.cnn.com/%7Er/rss/cnn_topstories/%7E3/376439198/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;One million new bankruptcies&lt;/a&gt; have been filed this week. Just kidding, it was over the last 12 months. Phew! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;What does a country gotta indict somebody for in order to get rid of him? Senator Ted Stevens &lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/28alaska.html%3Fbl%26ex%3D1219982400%26en%3D149edf05b53c24f2%26ei%3D5087&amp;amp;cid=1240006024&amp;amp;ei=gZW1SNDANZ3I8ATA9-3zCg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHzV87uuZAelkCb2V9XtYyL-TxoGw" target="_blank"&gt;won his primary&lt;/a&gt; yesterday. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Today in the Apocalypse: &lt;a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/%7Er/reuters/oddlyEnoughNews/%7E3/376447490/idUSBKK27922820080827" target="_blank"&gt;Rat meat&lt;/a&gt; is in high demand in Cambodia, thanks to the economy.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Awww, man... &lt;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080826/od_nm/nuns_odd_dc" target="_blank"&gt;the nun beauty pageant&lt;/a&gt; has been canceled for the usual, predictable reasons. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;You probably heard about Eva Longoria&amp;#39;s early forays into lingerie. If that&amp;#39;s your kind of thing, you&amp;#39;ll definitely want to &lt;a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/08/eva_longorias_old_lingerie_mod.php?bfm_index=2&amp;amp;bfm_page=0" target="_blank"&gt;check out The Superficial&amp;#39;s posting&lt;/a&gt; of seven-year-old photos, most of which have been virtually unseen, at least on the internet. Here (and above), a taste:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/08/23-End/eva%202.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/08/23-End/eva%202.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/08/23-End/eva%203.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/08/23-End/eva%203.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/08/25/there-she-is-the-world-s-most-beautiful-nun.aspx"&gt;There She Is... 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The World's Most Beautiful Nun</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/08/25/there-she-is-the-world-s-most-beautiful-nun.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:03:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:120486</guid><dc:creator>Nicole Pasulka</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=120486</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/08/25/there-she-is-the-world-s-most-beautiful-nun.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/08/23-End/00195792.zoom.a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/08/23-End/00195792.zoom.a.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave it to Italy to try and address the marginalization of nuns in the Catholic Church by throwing them a beauty pageant. The &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/24/1780783-italian-priest-organizes-beauty-contest-for-nuns" target="_blank"&gt;Miss Sister 2008&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; contest, starting in September, will take place on the blog of Rev. Antonio Rungi where nuns from around the world will showcase their work alongside a photo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But, Rev. Rungi explains--&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;We are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits,&amp;quot; Rungi said by
telephone from his town of Mondragone. &amp;quot;But being ugly is not a
requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and
we mustn&amp;#39;t hide it.&amp;quot; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a shocker that this is happening in the country where prime minister Berlusconi, when it came time for reelection, was quoted as saying:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;The left has no taste, not even when it comes to women...As
for our (women candidates) being more beautiful, I say that because in
parliament they have no competition.&amp;quot; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=120486" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/italians/default.aspx">italians</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/italy/default.aspx">italy</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/beauty+pageants/default.aspx">beauty pageants</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/catholic+church/default.aspx">catholic church</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/berlusconi/default.aspx">berlusconi</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nuns/default.aspx">nuns</category></item></channel></rss>