All right, it isn't much to go on, but Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone doesn't rule out the possibility that the Vatican city-state may one day field a "football" team, as they say on the other side of the water. He's ambitious, too, speculating that the team would serve up "first division" caliber play.
December 19, 2006
Vatican Soccer Squad?
By Kevin Schmiesing
Kevin Schmiesing is a research fellow at the Acton Institute. He is the author of American Catholic Intellectuals, 1895-1955 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) and, most recently, of Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II (Lexington Books, 2004). He is the book review editor for The Journal of Markets & Morality and is also executive director of CatholicHistory.net. Schmiesing earned his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Pennsylvania.
