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Rome’s “Sexy Priest” Calendar Sells Thousands, Priests Approve

5/21/2026

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Piero Pazzi’s “sexy priest” Calendario Romano continues to be sold in Rome, moving several thousand copies each year at about 8 euros despite most models not being priests.
Father Domenico, a South Korean priest, says the calendar helps young people view clergy as familiar and humorous.
Model Giovanni Galizia, now a flight attendant, never took holy orders and recalled the shoot as a lark at age seventeen.

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Piero Pazzi’s “sexy priest” Calendario Romano continues to be sold in Rome, moving several thousand copies each year at about 8 euros despite most models not being priests.
Father Domenico, a South Korean priest, says the calendar helps young people view clergy as familiar and humorous.
Model Giovanni Galizia, now a flight attendant, never took holy orders and recalled the shoot as a lark at age seventeen.