Flamenco-dancing Roman Catholic priest draws crowds of worshippers in Spain

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Jose Planas Moreno has become an Internet star for kicking up his heels during Mass. Female congregants dance down the aisles with him in the city of Campanilla.

BY Deborah Hastings /
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/
Saturday, July 26, 2014, 5:56 PM

It’s a lot more fun than going to Confession.

A Roman Catholic priest in southern Spain has parishioners banging down his church doors, all so they can praise God and dance the flamenco.

Jose Planas Moreno, or Father Pepe, as he is known, brings flocks of congregants to the Nuestra Senora del Carmen church in Campanilla by clicking his heels and strutting his stuff.

The 66-year-old and female worshippers twirl down the aisles doing the sevillanas, a traditonal dance very similar to flamenco, Britain’s The Telegraph reported.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/flamenco-dancing-spanish-priest-draws-crows-mass-article-1.1881331

Who am I to judge?

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1. "Dance, dance, wherever you may be.

I am the Lord of the Dance, said he."

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2. A simple gift.

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3. Thanks for the beautiful video, rug.

In Origins of the Sacred Dudley Young argues that religion began "on the dancing ground." It was a formative book for me.