Roberto Mancini, a former football star and manager of Italy’s national soccer team, told Italian TV that Pope Francis told him not to make the sign of the cross on the field.

Mancini, a devout Catholic, said Francis asked him, “Don’t you have other thoughts in this moment?”

Pope Francis is widely regarded as the first anti-Catholic pope.

Via En.news:

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