Do you actually think that Pope Francis orchestrated a “look at me moment”? Of course not. Whoever publishes the calendar is capitalizing on the immense popularity of His Holiness.
^^^^^ This.
As has been pointed out, the Pope has nothing to do with this. The pastor or someone he designated picked out the style - there are usually a few to choose from. Our calendar is mostly classic religious art. One year the English version was more “modern” with nature scenes while the Spanish one was the classic art. The parish ended up with a big surplus of English calendars that year.
Father has been careful to make sure that both versions he orders are classic since then. I have never actually seen one given out at a parish that uses contemporary real-life people, let alone repeated images of the same person (unless it was Jesus or Mary).The Holy Father doesn’t put out calendars, and may be completely unaware that someone is using his likeness on a calendar. The publisher likes him very much, obviously, but I doubt the Holy Father is receiving any modeling fees from the sale of the calendar.
Lets get real for a minute. The pope has nothing to do with what publishers print on their calendars.
Hopefully you found something to rejoice about today.
Since I don’t think the church does Imprimaturs for calendars, I assumed by “official” was meant the typical church-distributed calendar that shows holy days, identifies what each Sunday is, maybe the liturgical color, abstinence days, etc.
I was wondering the same thing.
Frankly, as a traditionalist - I’m offended by these Gregorian calendars handed out in churches! These things are published by dyed-in-the-microfiber liberals! Only the Julian calendar should be considered valid and I am patiently waiting for a Motu that will authorize its reprise! Those 11 minutes annually are worth fighting for!If you don’t have an official Catholic calendar, but a different one, is the one you have valid but not licit?