Tag: Orthodox

The Orthodox Calendar, an annual reminder that priests can be naked… and muscular too, has been unveiled yet again. The steamy calendar, which features nude and semi-nude photographs of members of the Orthodox Church, challenges perceptions of the denomination, as well as some of the anti-LGBT viewpoints from within. Organised by a group in Romania, this year’s calendar is called ‘P.I.L.F.’, or “Priests I’d like to f**k”. A release takes aim at the church even more, criticising it for corruption and wasting...

The time has come for us to get down on our knees... in prayer. The Orthodox Priest Calendar is here!! According to The Huffington Post: "The church has lost its way and is desperately trying to prevent hundreds of millions of people living in modern societies that respect human rights,” Magdalena De Iona, who is the press representative for the calendar, said. “We’d like to think that our art could empower people to question traditional forms of authority.”  This year, a portion...

The same team that started this trend strikes again. They first published a ravishing 2012 gay calendar that brought waves of opposition in both the Romanian press and abroad and their work was labeled by the Romanian Patriarchy as “an obvious intent of calumny regarding the reputation of Christian servants of the Lord”. Now, the 2016 new calendar brings another artistic vision regarding the phenomenon of religious discrimination towards the LGBT community. The most obvious proof supporting this idea...