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Don’t Be a Super Bowl Catholic
You probably know that there is a really, really big football game coming up on Sunday. You might even be able to identify the teams playing, the starting quarterbacks, or the head coaches. If you’re really into it, you’ll know which team’s defense is better statistically, the top rusher on Read More
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Avid sports fans know late December through early January as “the most wonderful time of the year” and not just because of the Christmas holiday. Between mid-December and January 11 more than three dozen nationally-televised college football bowl games are played (including two today which will decide the participants in Read More
True Heroes
The lexicon of sports is replete with references to war. “Hero,” “battle,” “trenches,” “General,” “warrior,” and others have all found their way into the vocabulary of players, coaches, broadcasters and reporters, and fans to describe some aspect of sports. There may be good reason for this, as there are parallels between Read More
Spiritual Detachment and Cardinals Baseball
The Cardinals lost. And it hurts. What you are about to read may hurt even more. You have to hand it to the Cubs. They showed they were the better team in the series. Their pitching was better and their hitting literally pounded the Cardinals into defeat via the homerun Read More
Close Encounters of the Pope Kind
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The History of the “Hail Mary” Pass
School is in session. The days are shorter. The faint, first chills of autumn can be felt in the evening air under Friday night lights. Football season is upon us. Just like other sports, there is no shortage of religious allegory in football. But few sports, if any, boast such a Read More
Three Lessons Sports Teach Us About Faith
ESPN The Magazine, the print version of the popular sports news franchise, recently published an article on the Houston Texans’ star running back Arian Foster. Considering Foster is one of the more well-known athletes in the country right now, this isn’t necessarily a surprise – it’s the subject matter of the article that Read More
If Bishops Wore Stripes
Or Why You Should Respect Sports Officials Heckling the officials. It’s as synonymous with sports as popcorn; as inevitable as a game’s final score. For some fans, it’s almost a hobby. As you begin reading this post, stop and think for a second: are you the sort of person who, when attending Read More
The Stadium Encyclical You Haven’t Heard About
The new encyclical, Laudato Si’, promulgated by Pope Francis has been heralded as a groundbreaking document. Others have lamented the fact that it was ever written. Having not read the entire thing word-for-word I cannot argue one way or another, and I don’t intend to, although in what I have Read More