Catholics bring the spirit to Packers tailgate scene

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Oct. 24, 2013
Written by Holly Meyer
Post-Crescent Media

GREEN BAY — A few hours before the Green Bay Packers trounced the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, the Rev. Quinn Mann donned green vestments and brought the sacred to the secular near Lambeau Field, representing a renewed effort in the Roman Catholic church for believers to step out of the parish and evangelize.

As far as fall Sundays in Wisconsin go, Mann said it is hard to find a better place to intersect faith and culture than Titletown.

“Catholics are beginning to understand that if you really truly want to engage a secular culture we need to be proactive,” Mann said. “That means allowing the message of the Gospel to really sink into our hearts, to have a relationship with Jesus Christ, but then to get back to the, as I like to say, ‘the brass tacks, the root of it’ and that is to go out to all the world and spread the good news.”

About 30 people, mostly teens who spent the weekend with Mann on a Catholic Youth Expeditions retreat, gathered for the parking-lot service in Ashwaubenon — about a block southeast of the stadium.

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20131023/APC0101/310230419/Catholics-bring-spirit-Packers-tailgate-scene

1:24 video at link.

[Turbineguy]

1. There's a reason....

Frank Zappa wrote a song about Catholic Girls?

[rug]

2. Yeah, rank sexism and homophobia

even by 1979 standards.

Catholic girls
With a tiny little mustache
Catholic girls
Do you know how they go?
Catholic girls
In the rectory basement
Father riley's a fairy
But it don't bother mary
Catholic girls
At the cyo
Catholic girls
Do you know how they go?
Catholic girls
There can be no replacement
How do they go, after the show?

Joe:
All the way
That's the way they go
Every day
And none of their mamas ever seem to know
Hip-hip-hooray
For all the class they show
There's nothing like a catholic girl
At the cyo
When they learn to blow...