JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty ImagesAgnieszka Radwanska's photos for ESPN the Magazine's Body Issue are reprinted in a magazine from her native Poland.
The Catholic church in Poland can't handle the naked truth about tennis star Agnieszka Radwanska.
The world's No. 4 player has religious zealots fuming in her native country over her spread for ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue, which features semi-nude shots of Radwanksa floating in and sitting next to a pool filled with tennis balls.
"It's a shame that someone who has declared their love for Jesus is now promoting the mentality of men looking at a woman as a thing rather than a child of God worthy of respect and love," Father Marek Dziewiecki, a senior priest in the Polish Catholic church, said about this year's Wimbledon semifinalist in an interview with the UK Telegram.
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"If she meets a man who she can truly love and establish a happy family and raise Catholic children, then she would probably have to hide these pictures from relatives."
Polish Catholic blogger Tomasz Terlikowski echoed Dziewiecki's sentiments by stating that a woman's "nudity should be reserved for her husband."
Even Radwanska's friends in Poland's Youth Crusade have severed ties with tennis star over her "immoral behavior," according to ESPN.
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Two years ago, Radwanska participated in a Youth Crusade-sponsored campaign titled "I am not ashamed of Jesus."
Unlike some of her fellow Catholics, the 24-year-old Radwanska isn't ashamed of her body either.
"I feel fortunate that I stay pretty lean without having to do much gym work," Radwanska told ESPN The Magazine in an interview that accompanied her photo spread.
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