The Lighter Side
To the Lighter Side we go again with stories to take the seriousness out of the week. First we go to Rome, where a priest has been sent off in a church football tournament for throwing his shirt at the referee!
The Burkina Faso priest’s actions led to Paul the Apostle’s College being eliminated from the Clericus Cup.
Staying with football and Real Madrid were fooled by a prankster who’d convinced them that he was Nicolas Cage.
According to the Spanish sports daily Marca, the lookalike, Italian television presenter Paolo Calabresi, watched Wednesday’s game from the directors’ viewing area at the Bernabeu and was taken into the team dressing room afterwards.
Calabresi organised the stunt by using the name of an agency in the United States that had recently arranged a similar meeting at the Bernabeu for another actor, Sylvester Stallone.
And finally to Nicaragua where hundreds of dogs were taken to celebrate mass on Sunday, in an annual ritual where the owners pray for their pets to be cured or avoid falling ill.
The town, 30 kilometres to the south of the Nicaragua capital Managua, is swarmed by a large queue of Catholic pet owners and the local priest always conducts a special canine mass.
The tradition is said to back to the colonial period after the Spanish conquest.
Monday, March 10th, 2008 and is filed under Views on News.
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