So. . .child molestation okay. Sunday football bad? > From: "Rick Mc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/12/28 Tue AM 12:13:05 EST > To: RollTideFan <rtf@rolltidefan.net> > Subject: [RollTideFan] [Non] Pope Says No Sports on Sunday > > The Pope Says Don't Do THIS on Sundays > > No more watching movies or football games on Sundays. Pope John Paul II > has decreed that Roman Catholics should reserve Sunday as a day for God > only and not for secular diversions, such as entertainment and sports, > reports Reuters. > > "When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a > secular concept of 'weekend' dominated by such things as entertainment > and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can > no longer see the heavens," the pontiff said in a speech to 35 > Australian bishops, who recently made a pilgrimage to the Vatican. The > pope blasted what he called "the pernicious ideology of secularism." > > Condemning the "culture of the here and now," the Holy Father encouraged > the leaders of the church to "lead men and women from the shadows of > moral confusion and ambiguous thinking." Noting the secular culture is > undermining family life, the pope encouraged Catholics to remain > faithful to the Sunday Mass. > > Richard Lapchick, director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in > Sport at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, admitted to The > Boston Herald that he was "kind of flabbergasted by the pope's > suggestion, because it seems like it's coming out of left field. We've > been playing sports on Sunday his entire papacy." Of course, most > professional teams, including those in Europe, play their games on > Sundays. Who can imagine a Sunday afternoon between August and January > without a National Football League game? > > To which the pope says this: "Sunday is the supreme day of faith, an > indispensable day, the day of Christian hope. Any weakening in the > Sunday observance of Holy Mass weakens Christian discipleship." > > Lapchick had harsh words in reply. If the Catholic church did place a > ban on Sunday sports, he thinks the church would lose congregants. > "Sports is a religion in this country and a lot of the world," he said. > > http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?name=fte/nosundaysports/nosundaysports&floc=wn-np > > > -- > Roll Tide! > rick > > > _______________________________________________ > RTF mailing list > RTF@rolltidefan.net > http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net >
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