During the NFL season, Sunday is the day when church and football battle for position in Americans’ hearts and minds. Metaphorical elbows are exchanged. Thoughts do battle. For example, is it morally acceptable to take delight in one helmeted human being trying to destroy the helmeted human being across from him?
St. Francis of Assisi on one shoulder: “Me? I wouldn’t hurt a fly.’’
St. Ditka of Aliquippa on the other: “If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us arms.”
There was no game for the Bears on this particular Sunday, so the spiritual side thought it had free reign.