{"id":3349,"date":"2007-10-03T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/10\/03\/ethical-refs\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T17:51:16","slug":"ethical-refs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/10\/ethical-refs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical refs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">A reader sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adnkronos.com\/AKI\/English\/Sport\/?id=1.0.1379821724\">the following story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Ancona, 3 Oct. (AKI) &#8211; Italy&#8217;s Catholic bishops are crying foul about onfield behaviour after their purchase of a professional Italian football team.<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal Italian Conference (CEI) recently purchased an 80 per cent stake in the professional team of Ancona which comes from the central Italian town on the Adriatic coast.<\/p>\n<p>The CEI has invited a group of Catholic businessmen to manage the team and is looking at a new ethical code to get rid of intolerance on the football field, according to the Italian newspaper La Stampa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a way of moralising football, bringing a few ethics to an area that is going through a crisis of values,&#8221; said Ancona&#8217;s archbishop Edoardo Menichelli.<\/p>\n<p>The new owners of the team, also known as &#8220;the team of priests&#8221; want to punish acts of intolerance, extreme fouls and introduce novel forms of punishment such as voluntary work for unacceptable onfield behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Managers and fans will also be expected to follow the ethical code. Fans will have to refrain from &#8220;improper&#8221; conduct against rival fans and using offensive banners.<\/p>\n<p>Direct Kick Foul gives the other team not only a free kick but the fouling player is assigned one or more Rosary mysteries depending on the severity of the foul. Soccer already has a penalty box so why couldn&#8217;t an on-field confessional be used for serious soccer sins? Though this would surely violate canons regarding the sacrament, it would be interesting to see players receive additional fines for impenitence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me the following story. Ancona, 3 Oct. (AKI) &#8211; Italy&#8217;s Catholic bishops are crying foul about onfield behaviour after their purchase of a professional Italian football team.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}