Each Sunday during the Buffalo Bills training camp, Basilian Father Kevin Mannara with Deacon Jonathan Schott offers an early morning Mass for Catholic players and coaches before practice.
Backed by Catholic clergy, Buffalo Bills chaplain provides rare full-time pastoral care
The ‘religion’ of football: Searching for the rightly-ordered soul
Catholic institutions in particular need to underline to the young men and women who play football and attend our institutions that it is “only a game.”
Book throws incomplete pass by tying religion to sports
The book’s core is formed by chapters outlining how baseball, football, hockey and basketball have influenced national life and culture in the U.S. and Canada, and vice versa.
Here’s a look at the NFL’s Catholic roots
Read about a few Catholics without whom the National Football League and the Super Bowl might not exist.
Divine intervention: Papal tweet of support for ‘Saints’ goes viral
A hashtag mix-up caused a papal tweet meant to give thanks for the Catholic Church’s newest saints to be read as Pope Francis showing support for the New Orleans Saints’ football team.
Summer camp combined football drills, scrimmages with Mass, adoration
A three-day football camp featured drills and scrimmages mixed in with Mass, rosary, Stations of the Cross and adoration.
Chaplain says 40 years with bowl-bound Badgers ‘a wonderful experience’
When the Wisconsin Badgers’ football team travels to the Orange Bowl to play Miami Dec. 30, the players will take a 12-1 record with them. Accompanying them will be Msgr. Michael Burke, who has been the team’s chaplain for 40 years.