Pope gets in picture with calendar girls

[spindrifter]

The Times November 10, 2006

From Paul Bompard in Rome

Competing for space on the newsstands with siliconed starlets, muscular football players and the cats of Rome later this month will be a new calendar: 14 full-colour photographs of the Pope in leisurely poses.
All were taken in a day’s shooting at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope’s magnificent summer residence in the hills east of Rome.

This is not the first papal calendar — those illustrated with photographs of the late John Paul II during his travels or audiences were popular — but it is believed to be the first time that a pope has agreed to pose for one.

Benedict XVI, who succeeded John Paul II last year, has already earned a reputation for stylishness and attention to the aesthetic details of papal attire. There are sunlit views of the pontiff, dressed in a long white habit, reading a book (we are informed it is a German edition of the Epistles of St Paul), and in his library perusing the many ancient volumes.

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Maybe he could offer some guest slots to the ousted--Rummy (not in a month lacking "r", please), Rick Sanitarium, John Bolton...

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Gross

a calender with pictures of the Crypt Keeper in his bathrobe...just what I never wanted.

[Olney Blue]

2. No thanks.

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