Posted on 02/05/2017 9:37:23 AM PST by mandaladon
VATICAN CITY (AP) Look out, Lady Gaga. The pope is joining the Super Bowl frenzy.
Pope Francis has recorded a video message that will be shown during Sunday's Super Bowl game between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons.
A Vatican spokesman says the message is expected to be played on the screen at NRG Stadium in Houston either before the game or during the first quarter.
In the message, the pope says he hopes the Super Bowl will be "a sign of peace, friendship and solidarity for the world."
Francis is an avid sports fan who often speaks of how sports can bring about social change. He has previously taken to Twitter for the Olympics and soccer's World Cup. This is his first Super Bowl message.
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Great one!
Yes, OWG and OWR.
The POPE? Great. Now I have to boycott TWO commie douchebags.
Catholic ping!
If it is.....I don't have words.
He could have been more careful.....
He’s not appearing with Lady Gaga?
Very real.
The photographer and his agency are listed in the upper right of the picture frame.
Multilingual Coke commercial.
Amazon commercial with a LGBT flag..
No agenda here.
IDIOT POPE!!! STick to CATHOLICISM!!!
NO decent person ever hated Popes before him.....you must be a _________!! Fill it in.
straight Christian..?
I’m thinking Baptist!! What denomination are you? Bet you won’t say....or bet you don’t belong to any Church....which is it?
You LIKE this Pope..?!
I didn’t say I considered any of the Pope haters I encountered before were decent people or even less than evil people.
NO.....I have NEVER disliked a Pope before....I am a daily Mass Catholic, but the only people that hated previous Popes before were always Baptists......I have many Baptists friends that tell me this. So what are you?
I believe we are exactly the same.
So, for the THIRD time....what denomination of Christian are you??
Not Baptist and not any denomination featuring a Rock band up on the alter, or anywhere in the Church.
LOL!! So you don’t go to Church on Sundays like the Ten Commandments tells you to do!!! omg.....how do you call yourself a Christian if you don’t belong to a Christian Ch—ch? You know what’s missing....UR!
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