After the Oct. 13 canonization of five new saints, the pope’s official Twitter account, @Pontifex, tweeted: “Today we give thanks to the Lord for our new #Saints. They walked by faith and now we invoke their intercession.” Trouble is, that hashtag belongs to the NFL’s New Orleans Saints. An error, of course, although the Saints did beat the Jaguars.
Pope’s support for Saints goes viral
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