November
7 Hot priests! Get your hot priests!

Welcome to the 21st century Catholic Church, where recruiting measures have come down to Hunk-of-the-Month calendars. Italian photographer Piero Pazzi's Calendario Romano -- known in Rome as "the Vatican beefcake calendar" -- "has become such an international cult item that Rizzoli recently snapped up rights to publish an American edition," Nick Vivarelli writes. While the calendar has no official Vatican ties, calendars were handed out this summer at World Youth Day in Sydney, a massive event for Roman Catholic teens. Pazzi, who notes that he gets many orders from Protestant female ministers in Nordic countries, says, "It's just intended as a souvenir." Pazzi, who has a multi-language casting call on his website, says, "I pick them young to signal that their calling is still very much alive." Of course. [Variety]