Il Calendario Romano: pin-up priests

[DetlefK]

http://www.calendarioromano.org/

The Vatican has a special item on sale for tourists: A calendar with pictures of good-looking priests. What started out as an obscure, random project has turned into a very popular item.

[intaglio]

1. Looks like the perfect gift for ...

Ted Haggard, Marcus Bachmann and perhaps Tom Cruise

[MineralMan]

2. Why is that, if you don't mind?

[intaglio]

3. Because, in rumour if not fact,

those gentlemen are deeply appreciative of male beauty. If my scurrilous suggestion was correct the problem they would face is that the faith of the pictured males is utterly wrong. Of course I could have said that it would be a good present for Paris Hilton, Eddie Izzard and Ian Mckellen but as there is no chance at all that these last are in denial about their sexuality that would not have been amusing.

[MineralMan]

4. I see.

I thought you were perhaps making some sort of implication that the people you mentioned were gay. Oddly enough, all are people much disliked here on DU. The association confused me, since it seemed like you were somehow implying that being gay was a bad thing in some way.

[ehrnst]

7. The first three that he mentioned are very outwardly homophobic

That, indeed is bad.

It's particularly painful when that homophobia is due to self-hatred turned outward.

[n2doc]

8. Tom would probably prefer one with only pictures of Mr. Tom Cruise n/t

[ehrnst]

5. We had a father What a Waste at the church where I grew up.

The senior priest had to tell him not to go jogging shirtless in shorts around town as a result.

[eissa]

6. Holy &*^%

I might actually consider stepping foot in an actual church if bottom two were the priests.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. Forgive me, Father; for I want to sin.

[Brigid]

13. It's off to Confession for you!

And me too.

[CTyankee]

10. The English translation of that ad is priceless!

I was thinking I maybe needed more coffee when I clicked on the link...it wasn't making any sense! "fine included"? I was thinking, is it some kind of misdemeanor to buy these calendars?

[CTyankee]

11. The only place I actually stopped and stared at gorgeous men was in Venice...

I embarrassed myself but I saw these three young men in their summer uniforms, maybe Carabinieri or perhaps vigili urbani and just stared at them momentarily...

[tanyev]

12. So...the church demands that these men repress their sexuality,

but it's OK for the church to make money off of it. Have I got the gist of it?