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NBA Players Meet Pope Francis at Vatican, Hailed for Demanding Justice
NBC News ^ | 11/23/20 | AP

Posted on 11/24/2020 6:01:49 PM PST by marshmallow

The group presented the pope with gifts such as a commemorative basketball and an Orlando Magic jersey.

Pope Francis lauded a delegation of NBA players who met with him at the Vatican on Monday as “champions" and said he supported their work on addressing social injustice.

Five players — Marco Belinelli, Sterling Brown, Jonathan Isaac, Kyle Korver and Anthony Tolliver — were joined by NBA players' union executive director Michele Roberts and two other union executives, Sherrie Deans and Matteo Zuretti.

“We're here because, frankly, we're inspired by the work that you do globally," Roberts told the pope during the meeting, which took place in the papal library.

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1 posted on 11/24/2020 6:01:49 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

If there was any justice, the felons would be locked up.


2 posted on 11/24/2020 6:03:14 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: marshmallow

They will get justice but not the kind they expect!!


3 posted on 11/24/2020 6:03:19 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: marshmallow

Lets see how their demands work when no one is watching their demands....except the anti-Christ playing the Poope!


4 posted on 11/24/2020 6:03:50 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: marshmallow

I think the Lakers are going to draft the Pope.

Can’t drive but he’s like 100% at the three point line.


5 posted on 11/24/2020 6:14:53 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: marshmallow

Hey Lebron, donate that new Bentley of yours to a homeless shelter.

Nice color btw.

5.56mm


6 posted on 11/24/2020 6:18:08 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: marshmallow

What a joke. Francis is as much a fraud as our election. Pope John Paul must be rolling in his grave.


7 posted on 11/24/2020 6:35:59 PM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: marshmallow

Reading the pope’s own words he appears to answer to a higher authority...NWO.


8 posted on 11/24/2020 6:37:02 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/11/new-book-sketches-popes-dream-for-a-post-covid-world/


9 posted on 11/24/2020 6:39:36 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: marshmallow

The pope and the dopes. Combined IQ of 12 in that room.


10 posted on 11/24/2020 7:17:11 PM PST by cp124 (Time for a new America.)
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