Posted on 12/23/2019 5:57:13 PM PST by marshmallow
Francis convinced the former football player and current manager of Italy’s national team Roberto Mancini, 57, not to make the Sign of the Cross on the football field, Mancini told Italian television TG5 (December 20, Italian video sequence below).
Mancini told TG5 that he is a lifelong Catholic and that he was lucky to grow up next to a parish, "My life was school, house, and parish." He also visited Medjugorje a couple of times.
To the question whether it happens that he prays on the pitch, Mancini quickly replied, "No, on the pitch not."
"Many make the sign of the cross," a slightly surprised reporter interjects, and Mancini explains,
"I used to do that too, you know, hoping nothing happened during the game, then we went to the pope. Pope Francis said, 'Why are you making the sign of the cross, don't you have other thoughts in this moment?' So since that time I don't do it anymore. I don't want the pope to get angry."
Pope seems to feel that thinking about soccer is more important, and that the sign of the cross would be a pointless distraction at such an important time.
He should have told the Pope to go to Hell. He’s on the road right now.
The most anti-god Pope in history?
Well, he’s not the REAL Pope, so there’s that.
Pope Soros is very rigid. He seems to have a difficult time dealing with change.
The first Pope who is anti Christian.
Only because he does not have the power that popes in the middle ages did are people not getting slaughtered.
I truly believe he would annihilate folks like us. Or at the very least strip us of everything we own for “redistribution”
If some extreme historical antagonist of the Catholic Church, say Voltaire or Diderot, had suddenly been elected pope, how would his conduct in office be distinguishable from that of Bergoglio?
Devil pope.
When is this demon being removed .
Well
Francis is a franquista
Franco is proud
“...Devil pope....”
Yep. Spirit of the anti-christ.
You guys are SO screwed.
Yes, he is, I believe.
Franco was much more Catholic than Bergoglio.
He is the Barry Lynn of Popes.
If some extreme historical antagonist of the Catholic Church, say Voltaire or Diderot, had suddenly been elected pope, how would his conduct in office be distinguishable from that of Bergoglio?
Voltaire was brilliant. This pope is an idiot. Voltaire would be constitutionally incapable o acting like Bergoglio.
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