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Romanian-born Antonio Petrescu believes you can worship God and Elvis at the same time: as a Catholic priest and Elvis Presley impersonator, he finds his spiritual inspiration in the late rock legend.

“People ask me ‘How can you reconcile Elvis impersonations with your choice of professional work?'” said Petrescu, who puts on his glittery suits and swivels his hips when not working as a parish priest in the Italian town of Avezzano.

Interviewed by Reuters on a church visit to the tiny town of Sorbo — population, 52 — in southern Italy, the priest said he believes Elvis is an appropriate inspiration for Christian worship because he sang of “love in general.”

The 34-year-old’s Web site (www.antoniupetrescu.com) has two separate entries — one for the priest, another for the artist, which talks about his “fiery voice” and discography including the singles “Lovin’ Arms” and “Reach out to Jesus.”

The pop doesn’t stop at Elvis: Petrescu also incorporates the lyrics of singers like Celine Dion into his sermons.

Petrescu feels his responsibility as a priest is to “walk this Earth in love for Jesus Christ,” a task in which he is inspired by Elvis’s “search for spirituality in his own life.”

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Though Underwood seemed to be enjoying a blossoming relationship with the Dallas Cowboy earlier this year, she swears they were never a couple.

”At one point it seemed like that’s where it was headed,” she says, ”but point blank, he is about football. I don’t know if it’s that I’m not quite his type or whatever, but I don’t think he’s at the point in his life where he would be willing to sacrifice football. He hated so much that people thought that he was paying more attention to me and that was causing him to not do well.”

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The president of the Southern Baptist Convention says he offered to pray with Rudy Giuliani to accept Christ as his savior, but the Republican presidential candidate declined.

Frank Page, pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C., recently told a group of ministers in Oklahoma the biggest surprise of his 16 months leading the nation’s largest Protestant body is the contact it brings with politicians.

Page said he has “met with almost all the presidential candidates” and has pledged that his “singular purpose” in those meetings would be to “tell them about Jesus.”

“When I spent two solid hours in a private meeting with Rudy Giuliani, I shared Christ with him so much that at the end of that two hours I said, ‘Rudy, I’m not going to leave this place unless I give you an opportunity to pray with me to receive Jesus as your savior. Would you do that with me Rudy?'” Page recounted.

“He said, ‘No, Frank, I’m not ready to do that. My daddy knows Jesus like that, but I’m not ready for that.'”

Page said he gave the former New York mayor his cell phone number and invited him to call “any time, day or night.”

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The president of Salisbury University faces questions after posting photographs on a social networking Web site.SU President Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach posted several pictures on her Facebook profile.

Among those was a picture of Dudley-Eshbach pointing a stick toward her daughter and a Hispanic man. 

The caption underneath the picture reads that Eshbach had to,”beat off the Mexicans because they were constantly flirting with my daughter.”

Another picture shows an animal, a tapir, and has a caption referring to the large size of the animal’s genitalia.

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