{"id":25642,"date":"2010-06-18T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/collar-cleats-seminarians-comp\/"},"modified":"2010-06-18T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:36:08","slug":"collar-cleats-seminarians-comp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/collar-cleats-seminarians-comp\/","title":{"rendered":"Collar &#038; cleats: seminarians compete for the Clericus Cup title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/clericus%20cup%20Italy%202010jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"clericus cup Italy 2010jpg.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/clericus cup Italy 2010jpg-thumb-225x307-6756.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"307\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>The other day the <i>NY Times<\/i> had a positive story about happenings in the Catholic Church. Yes, it&#8217;s possible that a good human interest story dealing with Catholic seminarians!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The annual soccer tournament known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clericus_Cup\">Clericus Cup<\/a> is an association of seminaries and houses of formation in Rome who have a friendly competition. This is only the 4th year of competition.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Church is a longtime fan of sport, especially a fan of soccer because it&#8217;s not only fun but sport promotes good social interrelations, brotherhood among the international students, skill, healthy mind, body &amp; soul and good sportsmanship. So, it is true that seminarians are more than just students&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The author brings out that a number of popes have had an appreciation for soccer<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read Gaia Pianigiani&#8217;s story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/16\/world\/europe\/16italy.html?scp=1&amp;sq=seminarians%20soccer&amp;st=cse\">Shedding the Collar to the Lace Up Cleats<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Pontifical North American College seminarians pulled together a handy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnac.org\/clericus-cup\/\">website for the Clericus Cup<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day the NY Times had a positive story about happenings in the Catholic Church. Yes, it&#8217;s possible that a good human interest story dealing with Catholic seminarians! The annual soccer tournament known as the Clericus Cup is an association of seminaries and houses of formation in Rome who have a friendly competition. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/collar-cleats-seminarians-comp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collar &#038; cleats: seminarians compete for the Clericus Cup title<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1763,1764,1702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}