Is The Vatican’s Criticism of Boxing Justified?

[ProBox1]

The Vatican has condemned boxing, but then who hasn’t? I must admit that I lose my patience with critics of the sports since they seem to use the same arguments year after year. Boxing, legalized murder? No more than car racing. Let face it, telling a group of good ole boys to drive in a circle as fast as they can is just asking for trouble. NASCAR is a sport that has its roots in illegal activities- most of their early stars spent their weeks driving bootleg booze through many southern back roads. [details]

[speedbag]

A group close to the Vatican is concerned about the "Immorality of Professional Boxing"?

I think that the Vatican, and those close to it, have larger "immoralities" to worry about.

The immorality of bishop behavior

Perhaps I missed their articles or stand on that.
Typical, that when you can't keep your own house in order you divert attention and condemn others.

I'm not catholic. No disrespect, but their leadership has lost all credibility in my book, and could care less what they think about boxing.

[RAESAAD]

A group close to the Vatican is concerned about the "Immorality of Professional Boxing"?

I think that the Vatican, and those close to it, have larger "immoralities" to worry about.

The immorality of bishop behavior

Perhaps I missed their articles or stand on that.
Typical, that when you can't keep your own house in order you divert attention and condemn others.

I'm not catholic. No disrespect, but their leadership has lost all credibility in my book, and could care less what they think about boxing.

Exactly........

[xzworks]

nascar is just a waste of gas.

[stinglikeabee]

The vatican needs to sort its own priests for indulging in the criminal, carnal and may I say perfidious sin of *****philia before pontificating on boxing and its vices!

[grayfist]

The papal seat had scantly been warmed by Benedict when new edicts spew forth from the Throne of Peter:

1. The Faithful cannot anymore sing and dance during mass or any similar liturgical exercises.
2. When reciting the "Our Father" in the course of the Holy Mass, people cannot anymore join hands.
3. Even while acknowledging the scarcity of young men joining the priestly order, the Vatican insists that it would not consider taking back priests who were booted out owing to their having married, blithely dismissing the historical fact that priests in the ancient Church had wives and children.

And now, it has pronounced condemnation on boxing. I thought condemnation went out with the last of the Pius popes and that the modern Church has committed itself to improvement, development and alleviation, and not condemnation.

The Vatican should suggest-- if it must dip its finger into something it knows close to nothing about-- IMPROVEMENTS, if it feels qualified, by virtue of some imagined virtue (no pun intended), to do so.

Were this not the 21st century, the most recent of Vatican pronouncements would have given one shivers over the prospect of the re-birth of the Spanish Inquisition, and wonder whether that most notorious of Dominican Inquisitors, Torquemada, has been reincarnated: that there will soon be high-tech equivalents of the rack and the stake!

I am a Roman Catholic and I struggle daily to separate the fundamentals of my Faith from the chaff that often are the doctrines force-fed to ones like me. I can only pray that those fellas in black robes and red hats could save me from having to wade through religious/doctrinal issues in my favorite sport. I have enough on my plate, as they too have more than they can handle in theirs, what with immoral priestly conduct having been and continue to being revealed as utterly widespread.

And, while they find means to best deal with immoral priests, the Vatican should begin divesting itself of shares in a condom factory while virulently attacking birth control.