Will Team Evil be invited?
Posted on 08/28/2014 7:23:30 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
A priest and close friend of Pope Francis says the pontiff's idea for an upcoming inter-religious soccer match for peace shows his keen interest in promoting the topic on all levels of society.
“The hope is that after this football match, this sports event, there will be an impact that raises awareness for peace,” Father Guillermo Karcher told CNA Aug. 25, explaining to other journalists that “the Pope's concern for peace is very great.”
“He sees in this event, this punctual message of the match for peace, a very positive element that gives a contribution, because it's necessary to try to build peace from all sides; from the political and diplomatic point of view,” he said.
Fr. Guillermo Karcher is a close friend of Pope Francis, and was present for the Aug. 25 launch of the Inter-religious Match for Peace.
Set to take place at 8:45 p.m. local time on Sept. 1 in Rome's Olympic Stadium, the match will draw together past soccer players who represent different cultures and religions, including Buddhists, Christians – Catholic and Protestant – Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Shintos.
The game is being organized by retired Catholic soccer star Javier “Pupi” Zanetti, who was captain of the Argentinean national team and of Inter Milan in Italy. He was chosen to organize the symbolic game, which he has stated was the “explicit wish of Pope Francis,” in collaboration with the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences.
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Zanetti was a very good player (for whatever that is worth).
While I'm sure everyone's heart is in the right place, the idea of "peace" being the end all and be all of things to work for has always irked me. For me, the inane lefty slogan would be more correct as follows:
"If you want peace, work for FREEDOM."
Except for the Hindus, cricket you know, didn’t we just have this a little more than a month ago. It was called the World Cup.
Sounds like a good time.
...that is, until the R.O.P. players show up.
I must confess that there is one thing I admire about our moslem adversaries: they actually mean it when they say they put "@ll@h" first. The rest of us are stuck in a Voltaire-Tom Paine "enlightenment" mentality . . . even the most "reactionary" among us.
The "enlightenment" was a disaster.
I rather have both reason and sanity that comes from Voltaire-Tom Paine aspect then the insanity that comes from the same terrorists who put their “allah god” first. The later is pure disaster.
Will Team Evil be invited?
I have no idea what in the world this Pope guy is thinking
It’s increasingly apparent that Pope Francis was elected to check off a few boxes: Latin American, Italian ancestry, affable public persona, and overall unfamiliarity with the inside workings of the Curia. Sort of a Pope manufactured by modernist committee.
The Church suffering will suffer greatly because of this lightweight.
Will they all have tp face the lions?? Will the Romans be sated by their gladitorial blood??
Shintos? seriously?
::groan::
“Muslims Play Soccer With The Heads Of Their Victims”
http://shoebat.com/2013/12/29/muslims-play-soccer-heads-victims/
Remember when he ceremoniously placed a beach ball on the altar at St. Mary Major? I wonder if the game ball from this momentous event will get the same treatment.
Do I have to remember? lol
That pope is working hard to get the One World Religion put in place...Just in time for the One World Gov’t...
And today’s the big day!
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