New Image of Virgin Mary Discovered

I hope she discussed that with God beforehand - if they'd end up getting a divorce, it'd be really hard on the Catholics.

Clever move by the magazine, though - by offering Mexican clergymen a legitimate pretense to buy the issue, they're bound to do a lot of extra business. "I really had to buy it...just to check whether it's blasphemous, of course..."

Nah - the priests will think that she is too old and too female. Not a good draw. This will help sales among Catholics looking for an excuse beyond the "articles" - after all, they have to buy it for their faith.

Will Bill Donahue get his knickers in a twist?

To get his knickers in a twist implies that they at some point get out of a twist.

When I first read your headline, I thought of the recent brain-madonna-in-a-brain-scan image and the images in Hustler, but they don't do those shots in Playboy, so I clicked through...

Not a good idea to mess with Jesus' mother, Greg!

This cover is currently all over Facebook, too. I just have to share a comment from one of my friends, because it's too funny not to:

I don't know what all else was inside the covers of that Playboy issue, but I think the cover is definitely on the vanilla side within the world of Catholic porn. It's nice when a religion can spin off a cottage industry or two.