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

Female congregants jump at the chance to stomp their feet and clap their hands with Father Pepe, also known as priest Jose Planas Moreno.

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.

While other Roman Catholic churches deal with dwindling numbers of the faithful, Father Pepe’s pews are filled to overflowing.

His followers have gone beyond Spain since videos of his flamenco prowess have been posted on YouTube.

“Something happens when I dance,” he told Diario Sur, the local Malaga newspaper, according to The Telegraph. “I love it. It brings me closer to God.”

He has flamenco in his blood, he said, because his mother was a gypsy.

In 1997, he said, he danced for the late Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.

A recent survey in Spain showed that people who never went to church rose from 7.5 percent in 2002 to 48.6 percent in 2012, the paper said. 

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