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My daughter's softball league prays after every game. Win or lose doesn't matter, no one cheers until after the teams congratulate each other and then get in a circle holding hands - saying the Lord's Prayer together.
Being raised in a religious family I thought I'd seen it all... this is a new one for me.
Is this common all over the US - or just something this one league does?
My daughter's softball league prays after every game. Win or lose doesn't matter, no one cheers until after the teams congratulate each other and then get in a circle holding hands - saying the Lord's Prayer together.
Being raised in a religious family I thought I'd seen it all... this is a new one for me.
Though we travel town to town (within a radius of 50 miles) for games, it seems like all teams are familiar with this.
Is this common all over the US - or just something this one league does in my state?
My daughter's softball league prays after every game. Win or lose doesn't matter, no one cheers until after the teams congratulate each other and then get in a circle holding hands - saying the Lord's Prayer together.
Being raised in a religious family I thought I'd seen it all... this is a new one for me.
Though we travel town to town (within a radius of 50 miles) for games, it seems like all teams are familiar with this.
Is this common all over the US - or just something this one league does in my state?
Arkansas - just a small league in the central state for pre-teen girls.
this is my daughter's first year - so we've not dealt with softball traditions. It doesn't bother me, but it is something we haven't run into with any organized sports in this area so I didn't know if it was just a softball in general thing or just us.
My boy went to a Catholic prep school that's the feeder school for the country's top Catholic university in terms of football; both schools have an overriding football ethos.My daughter's softball league prays after every game. Win or lose doesn't matter, no one cheers until after the teams congratulate each other and then get in a circle holding hands - saying the Lord's Prayer together.
Being raised in a religious family I thought I'd seen it all... this is a new one for me.
Though we travel town to town (within a radius of 50 miles) for games, it seems like all teams are familiar with this.
Is this common all over the US - or just something this one league does in my state?
Yeah, the bolded might have something to do with it!Every game in elementary and high school. But I went to a private catholic school.
My daughter's softball league prays after every game. Win or lose doesn't matter, no one cheers until after the teams congratulate each other and then get in a circle holding hands - saying the Lord's Prayer together.
Being raised in a religious family I thought I'd seen it all... this is a new one for me.
Though we travel town to town (within a radius of 50 miles) for games, it seems like all teams are familiar with this.
Is this common all over the US - or just something this one league does in my state?
Arkansas - just a small league in the central state for pre-teen girls.
this is my daughter's first year - so we've not dealt with softball traditions. It doesn't bother me, but it is something we haven't run into with any organized sports in this area so I didn't know if it was just a softball in general thing or just us.
Yeah, the bolded might have something to do with it!
16 years of Catholic education and a lifetime of active Parish life, and I never had anything but positive interactions with priests, nor do I personally know anyone that has had otherwise - and I count several priests as my friends, with one as a close family member.I went to a private catholic high school, and grade school. We got enough exercise just running from the pedo-priests.
16 years of Catholic education and a lifetime of active Parish life, and I never had anything but positive interactions with priests, nor do I personally know anyone that has had otherwise - and I count several priests as my friends, with one as a close family member.
Besides the pain and suffering caused to their victims, the damage those pedo priests did to the reputation of the Church was the most severe blemish possible, which is a shame because of all the good the Catholic Church has otherwise done.
Yish!2 in our grade school, and 1 that used to be the HS principal before I started there. I used to do lawn work at his parish...he had no problem giving 17 year olds beer. Thankfully nothing happened to me...
Yish!
Too close for comfort. Man, I don't know what to say. It's stuff likes this that destroys institutions, or at the least their appeal.
Well, that's quite a litany.One had hundreds of videos of his exploits, he did 19 years in prison, got out pretended to be a priest and started up again, he is in prison again. Another in my grade school, after I graduated, had a cabin, brought boys up to it, made them all get naked, special kid got to share a sleeping bag...he died in prison. Former principal had a bunch of valid allegations raised against him, he then traveled to his old city, and mysteriously died. And we had a bishop that was a pedophile, the bishop that replaced him hit and killed a guy with his car, and fled the scene....but...no jail time for him...:shock:
Well, that's quite a litany.
We've had cases in my city, but I have no personal knowledge or association with them or others.
But it is very sad.
This stuff appears horrid to me as a practicing Catholic - I can only imagine how it appears to non-Catholics! :doh
Is this common all over the US
Arkansas - just a small league in the central state for pre-teen girls.
this is my daughter's first year - so we've not dealt with softball traditions. It doesn't bother me, but it is something we haven't run into with any organized sports in this area so I didn't know if it was just a softball in general thing or just us.
I would prefer people to pray for more important things than games and lost keys. But whatever floats their boat.
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