This happened as two female models kissed for a magazine photo shoot in Italy and were separated by an irate nun.
As she passed Serena de Ferrari and Briton Kyshan Wilson participating in the shoot on a Naples backstreet, the mystery nun, who was clothed entirely in white, became red.
The nun pulled the two women apart as they were locked in a kiss and yelled, “What are you doing? The ladies laughed at her outburst as she said, “This is the devil’s business.”
Both women participated in the photo session for Not Yet magazine. They both appear in the well-known Italian TV soap opera Mare Fuori.
After reprimanding the two women and the video team, the nun crossed herself and said, “Jesus, Joseph, and Mary.”
The shoot’s makeup artist, Roberta Mastalia, recalled the incident this way: “We were on site in Naples’ Spanish Quarter, with the two models, in a small sidestreet when suddenly the nun strolled through.”
‘She asked us if we had been to Mass that day and when we said ‘No’ she started blaming young people for Coronavirus and then she saw the two models posing up ready to kiss and that’s when she ran forward to split them up.
‘Our first reaction was we were all stunned the new took it as a bit of a joke and in fact a you can see from the video the two girls are laughing.
‘We then had to ask the nun to leave as we explained we had work to do and she slowly walked off.’
Serena published a still from the film to her Instagram account with the caption, “God doesn’t love LGBT,” and Kyshan, 19, a London native, did the same.
Although the nun’s actions were homophobic, Antonello Sannino of the local LGBT community organization Arcigay observed that at least she wasn’t violent. It appears that the nun was genuinely horrified by what she witnessed, which would make sense if it were a different time period.
‘The Church has always updated its ideas, but in all walks of society, even in ours, some individuals, perhaps of the older generation, have not kept up with the current changes,’ said local priest Father Salvatore Giuliano.
‘I embrace this nun, who simply had the same reaction as any of our grandmothers would have. Within the Church a feeling of understanding has begun and this has started through Pope Francis who recently met for the first time with a transsexual in the Vatican.
‘Yes, much work still has to be done but it’s becoming increasingly clear that love between two people of the same sex is no longer taboo in any environment.’
Although the Catholic Church has changed its stance on same-sex relationships in recent years, its teachings still refer to such relationships as a “grave sin.”
It forbids same-sex partnerships but permits same-sex marriages.
Pope Francis made the remark in 2013: “Who am I to judge gay people?” While two years ago, the Argentine pontiff stated that “gay persons have a right to be in a family… they are children of God and have a right to a family” in a documentary by Evgeny Afineevsky. Nobody should be made miserable or thrown out because of it.
Later, the Vatican made an effort to clarify the remarks, claiming that they had been misinterpreted and had not indicated support for same-sex unions.