Tag: priests

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 archbishop of Dublin says he will no longer be sending his student priests to be trained at Ireland’s oldest seminary after a Vatican investigation uncovered a culture of gay sex and the prolific use of the gay hookup app Grindr on the campus, reports Reuters. Dr Diarmuid Martin, the most senior Catholic in the Irish Republic, says he made the decision some months ago because he was “somewhat unhappy” about “an atmosphere that was growing in” St Patrick’s College...

His name is Krzysztof Olaf Charamsa and he is a Polish priest working for the Vatican’s theologian core. Or, at least, he was, until Saturday when he took part in a news conference in Rome, revealing himself as gay, after which he was fired. us.makemefeed.com The 43 year old Charamsa was accompanied by his partner and his intention was to criticize the Catholic Church for bashing the same-sex relationships and associating them with a sinful behavior. The Vatican’s response was pretty...