The victorious Spanish football team, along with Ángel Maria del Villar, the president of the Spanish Federation of Football are in Mexico to present the World Cup to Our Lady of Guadalupe. There are some photos at Demotix. This must surely be a significant gesture given the hardcore secularism of Spain's Prime Minister.
Incidentally, five minutes' research (asking a Catholic, for instance) would have gained the Independent's reporter the extra little expert detail that the "prominent cross" is actually a rosary. If he had shown that he didn't understand the offside rule, he would be ridiculed far and wide. But when it comes to religion, who cares?
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That's great! (The Spanish team, I mean.) If I'd known they were going to do that, I'd have rooted for them all along.
Pitty is that they haven't done anything similiar in Spain. And as you know it is unlikely to be due to the lack of shrines of Our Lady.
@ Father Finigan
I have today emailed details of my FOOTBALL AGAINST RACISM IN EUROPE 1991-2010 case focus, with which you are familiar, to Mark Whittle the Football Association's head of media relations.
The email more than suggests, it demands, that it is time for Mr Whittle and the FA to do religion.
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us in BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP's EU/GLA/LDA/ODA NEO-NAZI DEVELOPMENT TIMES Amen
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