A delegation of twenty people, led by the Prosecutor, met Leo XIV in the Vatican. Donated a national pennant created for the occasion with the writing: “For the protection of loyalty, correctness and probity in football”
There was also a bit of football this morning in the Vatican for the last Jubilee audience of the year with the Holy Father. A delegation from the FIGC federal prosecutor’s office, made up of twenty people and led by the prosecutor Giuseppe Chinè, was received by Pope Leo XIV. “In a time marked by conflicts, not only wars, which rage among human beings in many corners of the world, we told the Pontiff that we want to give our contribution to making a culture based on loyalty, justice and respect prevail, not only in the field of sport”, said Chinè after the meeting in St. Peter’s Square. The magistrate gave the Pope a national pennant made for the occasion, with the writing “For the protection of loyalty, correctness and probity in football”, the principles that the Code of Sports Justice demands from all its members in article 4, perhaps (often for less than noble reasons) the best known.
against all violence
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“In the Christmas period – continues Chiné – we always make good resolutions to improve ourselves. The discrimination and violence that we fight are the same that the Church and civil society face with awareness-raising activities aimed at inclusiveness and brotherhood. It is the same concept carried forward by CONI and the Paralympic Committee in the meetings held in recent days with Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education and with Vatican Athletics”.