MOSCOW -- A group of Christian enthusiasts has released a calendar showing an unexpected face of the Russian Orthodox Church: cat-loving priests.. The Priest and Cat calendar released earlier this ...

Talk about a hot date. A calendar featuring photos of handsome priests is selling out across Rome, with tourists swooning over sexy snaps of the Catholic clergymen. The Calendario Romano features ...

Orthodox 'priests' strip off for gay calendar they say will bring 'hope, joy and comfort' Romanian Orthodox 2014 calendar creators say it pays tribute to gay marriage ...

The hot priests calendar. In Rome, that’s what they call the Calendario Romano. Its pages are filled with good-looking young men in clerical garb, posing for the camera. Yes, they’re actual ...

ROME (RNS) "It's about marketing," said Piero Pazzi, the photographer behind the annual calendar featuring attractive priests of Italy. "It's a souvenir, not a statement of any kind." ...

This year’s calendar has a Seven Deadly Sins theme, and “priests” in poses I for one have never seen a priest strike. The identities of the “hot priests” in the 2015 calendar are kept secret ...

Named the ‘Calendario Romano’ - but more commonly referred to as the ‘hot priests’ calendar’ by tourists or, by Italian media, as ‘il calendario preti sexy’ - it was launched in 2003 and has taken on ...

Makers of the annual Orthodox priest calendar are upping the ante for 2016, releasing some of the raciest and most risqué images in the calendar’s four-year history. The hunky Italian models ...

MOSCOW — A group of Christian enthusiasts has released a calendar showing an unexpected face of the Russian Orthodox Church: cat-loving priests. The Priest and Cat calendar released earlier this ...

The Long Count calendar may be a relic of the past, but modern-day Maya communities in the highlands of Guatemala still have “Daykeepers,” people whose job it is to maintain a 260-day ritual ...

From Josh O’Connor to Andrew Scott to Gregory Peck, the hot priest has existed in pop culture for decades. But how does the fantasy hold up to reality? Ellen O'Connell Whittet takes a closer look.