The new "Priest and Cat Calendar" is not produced by the MP. But the lay editorial staff must surely be members of that jurisdiction. The article covering the launch of the unusual calendar - presumably Old Calendar, of course - is quite short.
So there is not too much more information available yet.
"[ Editor Ksenia ] Luchenko said the idea was totally spontaneous but it can now be viewed as a Russian Orthodox answer to the annual Italian Calendario Romano, featuring handsome young priests of the Roman Catholic Church, and the Gatti di Roma calendar filled with Rome's cats.
Luchenko told The Associated Press some of the priests they approached refused to be photographed, fearing that the project would be too "pop."
"To be honest, it feels a bit strange, when you call priests and ask: 'Father, tell me please, do you have a cat? Oh, you do? Great!" she said. "So the initial reaction was a bit wary."