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May 22, 2016

Catholic values drive Baltimore Ravens’ coach on and off the field

Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh prays with players after they defeated the Cleveland Browns 20-10 in 2014 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Harbaugh says he has relied on his Catholic faith to guide him and his players as they have faced various challenges during the past year.

BALTIMORE – The accomplishment of winning the Super Bowl in 2013 as the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens gave John Harbaugh a crowning achievement in football, but he relied on his Catholic faith to guide him and his players through a series of potentially spirit-crushing events during the past year.

Published in Faith
February 3, 2012

Historic parish reaches out to Super Bowl visitors

Benedictine Sisters Jennifer Mechtild Horner and Sheila Fitzpatrick pose Jan. 26 under an 800-foot zip line that they just rode that was built over Capitol Avenue in Indianapolis in the middle of the Super Bowl Village and next to St. John the Evangelist Church.

INDIANAPOLIS - A historic Indianapolis church is in the centre of festivities surrounding the Feb. 5 Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium.

St. John the Evangelist parish, founded 175 years ago when Indianapolis was a small town on the edge of the American frontier, is the middle of the Super Bowl Village hosting many events at the Indiana Convention Centre across the street from the church and on streets surrounding it.

Published in Features
January 31, 2012

Prayer, sport and whose side is God on?

Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebowis one of the most outwardly religious athletes in North America.

Super Bowl Sunday marks the end of the football season and a look back at the year that was. On the field it was the year of the quarterback, with Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford, Eli Manning and Aaron Rodgers all putting up eye-popping numbers. Off the field, the chatter was about one quarterback, Tim Tebow of the Denver Broncos.

His improbable story was captivating enough, coming off the bench in mid-season to lead his team to the playoffs with one last-minute victory after another. It was his Christian faith, though, that sparked an international discussion about whether faith had a place in sports, whether God was on Tebow’s side or whether Tebow thought God was on his side, or whether in fact God thought He ought to be on Tebow’s side.

Published in Fr. Raymond de Souza
January 16, 2012

Women's religious orders work to ward off sex trafficking at Super Bowl

Sisters of the Holy Cross lead the Human Trafficking Awareness Day prayer service, which included the story of St. Josephine Bakhita, at the Church of Our Lady of Loretto in Notre Dame, Ind., Jan. 11. Left to right: Sisters Semerita Mbambu, Rose Kyomukam and Manorma Kerketta, Jui Clara Corraya

WASHINGTON - Picking up from efforts to stem sex trafficking at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, 11 women's religious orders from Indiana and Michigan are working to stop sex trafficking at this year's Super Bowl.

The orders are members of the Coalition for Corporate Responsibility for Indiana and Michigan, established in the early 1990s. The coalition is a member of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, which spearheaded the anti-sex trafficking efforts two years ago in South Africa.

The nuns aren't always the biggest football fans, but they've picked up some of the terminology.

Published in International