Priest cancels beauty pageant ... nun too soon

The Rev. Antonio Rungi reportedly created the pageant by announcing it on his blog.

The unconventional — and short-lived — pageant has lit up the blogosphere over the past day or so as news has spread about Rungi’s idea.

According to MSNBC News Services, Rungi’s online pageant drew his superiors’ attention and they were not thrilled with his project.

“My superiors were not happy. The local bishop was not happy, but they did not understand me either,” Rungi told Reuters by telephone from his convent in southern Italy on Tuesday, MSNBC reported.

The news agency reported that Rungi claimed he did not plan on nuns strolling the catwalk. Rungi said his vision for the pageant included nuns having a month to vote for themselves on his blog, listing their attributes such as social awareness, charity and spirituality.