# Vatican Beefcake Calendar **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288 "2004-11-17T16:49:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/41 "2004-11-18T14:36:54Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I suddenly have a strong, overpowering urge to convert… Nooo… don’t do it…! Us pagans had the sexy thing down solid long before the Catholics were even around! We can catch up! Honest! :: dances frantically around maypole :: [sub]You grumble for years that the hegemonic religions are guilty of saying, not doing, and then one day one of them gets off its butt and actually decides to _do_ something…! Next thing you know, they’ll be repudiating the Cartesian mind/body split and admitting that maybe worldly things aren’t just snares ond delusions of the Devil![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/42 "2004-11-18T18:32:01Z")
It wasn’t bad enough when it was “All the good looking guys are either gay, or married.” Now they’re either gay, married, or priests. Sheesh. But daaaaayum. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/43 "2004-11-18T18:45:04Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > It wasn’t bad enough when it was “All the good looking guys are either gay, or married.” Now they’re either gay, married, or priests. Or some combination thereof. (“Hel_lo!_ I’m a _Roman Catholic priest!_ Historically, that’s somewhere between florist and chorus boy!” - Nathan Lane in _Jeffrey_) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/44 "2004-11-18T18:48:04Z")
Just for the record, I thought that one guy was pretty hot, and I’m not even gay! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/45 "2004-11-18T19:11:13Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Nooo… don’t do it…! Us pagans had the sexy thing down solid long before the Catholics were even around! We can catch up! Honest! > > :: dances frantically around maypole :: But pagans don’t wear strangely attractive outfits, do they? Though I am thinking of a certain someone’s ritual robes…drool. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/46 "2004-11-18T19:14:13Z")
The reason Catholicism is sexier than paganism is because it full of things you’re not supposed to do, which makes them _naughty_. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/47 "2004-11-18T19:18:42Z")
You are so right! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/48 "2004-11-18T19:21:59Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > But pagans don’t wear strangely attractive outfits, do they? Sometimes we do… _thinks of certain sarong-clad gentlemen at Kaleidoscope… gahbibble_ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/49 "2004-11-18T19:30:24Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > But pagans don’t wear strangely attractive outfits, do they? That depends. What do you have in mind? 😃 > [@Jennyrosity](#): > > The reason Catholicism is sexier than paganism is because it full of things you’re not supposed to do, which makes them _naughty_. Now _that’s_ perverse. I must be too literal or something–I never thought of ‘naughtiness’ or ‘badness’ in themselves as being attractive. Actually _being_ bad may involve self-confidence and personal power that are attractive, but the mere act of badness? Not particularly attractive at all. (BTW, am I the only one who thinks that the word ‘naughty’ sounds quaint, and brings to mind Monty Python skits? Apparently it once meant really evil.) ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/50 "2004-11-18T19:32:49Z")
I just want to lick them all over like a lollypop. Is that so wrong? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288/51 "2004-11-18T19:33:29Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > There was a priest at my inlaws’ parish who my sisters-in-law referred to as “Father What-A-Waste.” 😃 Growing up, I read the book _Growing Up Catholic_ cover to cover several times along with the sequel, _More Growing Up Catholic_, most likely because it was on the bathroom shelf next to the toilet, and I could always use reading material. It contains an essay about Father What-A-Waste, which fortunately [is reproduced online](http://www.beliefnet.com/story/49/story_4988_1.html): > [@](#): > > In every Catholic schoolgirl’s life there appears at one time or another a young, handsome stranger. He is friendly, warm, sincere and listens willingly to her problems. He “understands” her as no one ever has. He even plants a little kiss on her cheek when he comes to her family’s house while conducting the parish census; it’s to die from. But there’s only one fly in the holy ointment: he is a priest, and his name is Father What-a-Waste. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-beefcake-calendar/275288.md?page=2)