Russian Orthodox priests attend an Easter service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, April 20, 2014. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Russian Orthodox priests attend an Easter service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, April 20, 2014. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (RUSSIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Russian Orthodox priests attend an Easter service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, April 20, 2014. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (RUSSIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Move over, buffed French rugby team members known for their naked Dieux Du Stade annual calendar. You have two stiff competitors for the 2015 calendar scene. One of them just happen to be holy men, Orthodox priests who have shed off their habits and undies as well to battle homophobia.

While displaying their bulging muscles, washboard six-pack abs and bubble butts, the priests also attempt to preach basic Catechism as the theme of their nude calendar are the Seven Deadly Sins, namely: wrath, avarice, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony.

Shot in Romania by six photographers who probably are the only ones who would get to know the identities of the priests, the 2015 edition has two versions, a safe for work and an x-rated one.

These modern-thinking clergy, who would probably raise the hackles of some conservative cardinals in the Vatican such as the recently demoted Cardinal Raymond Burke, and probably cause some viewers to want to go to confession such as what the 2014 edition photos, which combined modern concepts with traditional spirituality, did.

For example, one photo showed a six-pack priest lowering his white skivvies while taking a selfie with a painting of an angelic battle as the background. Another showed a naked clergyman holding a piece of chicken drumstick.

The 2015 edition promises to be even more exciting, as the following teaser shows.

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