craziest priest - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:03:48 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg craziest priest - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Priest to fight parishioner in charity boxing match https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/02/17/priest-fight-parishioner-charity-boxing-match/ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:20:51 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=68008 A Catholic priest is donning his boxing gloves for a charity fight next month. Fr Pierre "Jalapeno" Pepper, parish priest of St Rynagh's in Banagher, Co Offaly, will be squaring up to parishioner Jared "The Artful Dodger" Madden to raise money for the St Vincent de Paul Society and the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association. Read more

Priest to fight parishioner in charity boxing match... Read more]]> A Catholic priest is donning his boxing gloves for a charity fight next month.

Fr Pierre "Jalapeno" Pepper, parish priest of St Rynagh's in Banagher, Co Offaly, will be squaring up to parishioner Jared "The Artful Dodger" Madden to raise money for the St Vincent de Paul Society and the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.

The pair have been interviewed by the BBC and appeared on The Late Late Show after a video of Fr Pepper calling out his opponent went viral.

Fr Pepper said he was enjoying his five minutes of fame but would be keeping out of the way of his bishop. Contiue reading

Priest to fight parishioner in charity boxing match]]> 68008 He is called Italy's craziest priest https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/07/23/he-is-called-italys-craziest-priest/ Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:30:53 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=47350 Italian priest Father Bruno Maggioni has begun to garner quite the following for his wedding theatrics, singing and dancing his way through ceremonies in the Italian town of Limbiate, north of Milan. During a wedding this week, the he belted out 1980s pop song "Mamma Maria" from Italian group Ricchi e Poveri. The debate over whether Maggioni's behaviour Read more

He is called Italy's craziest priest... Read more]]> Italian priest Father Bruno Maggioni has begun to garner quite the following for his wedding theatrics, singing and dancing his way through ceremonies in the Italian town of Limbiate, north of Milan. During a wedding this week, the he belted out 1980s pop song "Mamma Maria" from Italian group Ricchi e Poveri.

The debate over whether Maggioni's behaviour is appropriate in the church has sparked some fierce debate in video comments. Some have taken to calling the man the "craziest priest in Italy." Read more and watch videos

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