Catholic Perspectives on Sports

Catholic Perspectives on Sports
Author: Patrick Kelly
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0809147955

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According to author Patrick Kelly, Catholics have always engaged in play and sports. During the Middle Ages, games and sports were played on feast days and Sundays, and these activities are shown in prayer books, in woodcuts, and on stained-glass windows in churches and cathedrals. Contrary to the view of some sports historians, pre-Reformation Christians did not "loathe the flesh" but instead insisted on the unity of body and soul. Book jacket.