On Wednesday, two Peta protesters chanted and held up banners opposing sport before being escorted out of Paul VI Hall. They then chanted and yelled at Pope Francis ‘ general audience.
The two were holding banners atop” Bullfighting is a sin” and t-shirts read” Prevent blessing corridas.” The Catholic Church’s involvement in sport has been pleading with the Pope to end its relationship with it and denounce the “despicable body game.”
According to the business, each year, tens of thousands of cows are killed in bullfighting festivals worldwide, some dedicated to Catholic saints. Mounted assailants in these situations slam lances and banderillas into the bulls, causing it to experience severe pain and hemisphere restraints its movements.
” As many countries are properly banning this ill form of ‘ entertainment.’ Pope Francis has cut all ties to bullfighting and soon denounce this body sport, according to a statement released on its website.
The Vatican did n’t immediately comment on Wednesday’s protest.
In a recent petition calling on Pope Francis to condemn gambling, American pastor Terry Martin recently criticized it.
The preacher from West Sussex, UK, posed in a dark cassock next to a bull with the plaque:” It is a crime to abuse animals”.
Pope Francis remarked in his essay Laudato Si that “any act of cruelty to any thing is” contradictory to human respect” and that Pope St. Pius V had already outlawed festivities that were deemed” callous” and “far removed from Christian devotion and generosity.”
