{"id":2687,"date":"2011-05-27T21:37:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2011-05-27T22:03:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T04:03:28","slug":"pope-you-cant-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2687","title":{"rendered":"Pope: You Can’t Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sister<\/a>

Sister Nobili, the dancing nun (BBC News)<\/p><\/div>\n

A century or more ago, the anarchist Emma Goldman told one of her earnest lefty comrades that dancing and “the revolution” were not incompatible, which became the source of various mangled quotations attributed to her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But evidently the pope feels that nuns who won’t stop dancing don’t fit in with the Roman Catholic church.<\/a><\/p>\n

And an ex-fashion designer abbot? Very suspicious.<\/p>\n

No kinetic stuff! Just genuflecting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A century or more ago, the anarchist Emma Goldman told one of her earnest lefty comrades that dancing and “the revolution” were not incompatible, which became the source of various mangled quotations attributed to her. But evidently the pope feels that nuns who won’t stop dancing don’t fit in with the Roman Catholic church. 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