POLAND
The News
The Salesian Society has said that pupils licking cream off a monk’s bare knees will no longer be part of initiation ceremonies at a high school run by monks in Lubin, southern Poland.
Father Alfred F. Leja, chief inspector at the society, which supervises educational standards at the St Dominik Salvio high school in Lubin, said that initiation ceremonies involving a priest with white foam on his knees, with first year pupils kneeling before him, “crossed the boundaries of good taste” and would no longer occur.
Last week it was reported that the school had photographs on its web site of 13 year-old pupils kneeling before a priest, who had what TV Odra said was whipped cream on his knees – the school claims it was shaving foam – during an initiation ceremony for first year students.
The children appear to be licking the cream off the priest’s legs in the photos, which have now been withdrawn from the school web site.
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