Pope mistakenly Tweets support for U.S. 'Saints' football team

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Pope mistakenly Tweets support for U.S. 'Saints' football team

 

Pope Francis attends the general audience at the Vatican, October 9, 2019. REUTERS/Remo Casilli

 

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Some saints wear halos, other saints wear helmets.

 

The Vatican employees who manage Pope Francis' official Twitter account in English confused the two on Sunday when Tweeting about five new saints he canonised in St. Peter's Square.

 

"Today we give thanks to the Lord for our new #Saints. They walked by faith and now we invoke their intercession," the Tweet read.

 

The hashtag #Saints used by the Vatican on the pope's English account, however, had the Fleur-de-lis after it, which is the one used by an American football team, the New Orleans Saints.

 

The New Orleans Saints have 1.5 million Twitter followers and Pope Francis has about 1.8 million on his English account alone.

 

So the Tweet went viral as thousands of U.S. football fans reacted, with many New Orleans Saints fans jokingly giving thanks for the perceived blessing.

"Praise the Lord and pass the football," one said.

 

For the record, the Saints, those from New Orleans, beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 13-6 on Sunday.

 

(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Robert Birsel)

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-10-14

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[Matzzon]

Thy shall not Tweet, Mr Pope. It´s a sin. Father forgive me......

[Amalia0101]

While this current pope is actually a good hearted guy, nobody should pay attention to what professional snake oil salesmen are saying. 

 

 

[Slip]

2 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Thy shall not Tweet, Mr Pope. It´s a sin. Father forgive me......

Although there are many archaic English grammar nazis on this site, they may not all get this one, so I want to be the first to point out your error.

You mean "thou' not "thy".  "Thy" is the possessive adjective (not to be confused with "thine" the possessive pronoun). 

[shy coconut]

We're doing ok without Brees at the moment, so maybe there's something in this

religious stuff after all!!

[Amalia0101]

13 minutes ago, shy coconut said:

We're doing ok without Brees at the moment, so maybe there's something in this

religious stuff after all!!

There is nothing embedded with the religious stuff, unless you wish to be fooled by other people telling you silly stories. 

 

It's really up to you. 

[Baerboxer]

15 hours ago, Amalia0101 said:

There is nothing embedded with the religious stuff, unless you wish to be fooled by other people telling you silly stories. 

 

It's really up to you. 

 

Really? You mean all those millionaire American Football players, Soccer stars and boxers who constantly keep crossing themselves and/or kissing their crucifixes before a contest, when they do something good or win, are wrong?

 

????