This is Carlos Alcaraz, the world's number two tennis player. At just 22 years old, he has climbed to the top of the sport's greatest stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the U.S. Open, a priest blessed him \u2013 a very unusual sight to see among sports players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Less than a week after being elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV received a visit from the world's number one tennis player: Italian Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was an occasion on which the Pope demonstrated his great passion for the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ball. If you want to play a little\u2026 This tennis court you see is located in the Augustinian General Curia, just a few meters from the Pope's residence in the Vatican. But that is not all. In the days leading up to the conclave, then-Cardinal Robert Prevost went to the order's curia to play tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a sport that has undoubtedly occupied a large part of his life. During his pontificate, he may not stop practicing it either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The faithful are aware of this, and if not, look at what happened at this general audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A ping-pong table, which they had given to the pontiff, was brought to the Paul VI Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AM This is Carlos Alcaraz, the world's number two tennis player. At just 22 years old, he has climbed to the top of the sport's greatest stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":80207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6q_2ERtyhEU","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbenedizionealcarazeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbenedizionealcarazint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80210,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80206\/revisions\/80210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
But here\u2026 Better not. Let\u2019s leave it.
Better not.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
FR. JOSEPH FARRELL
General Assistant for North America
<\/strong>(He) would comes over and prays with us every day, and at least once a week would go back up into the garden and play tennis. He's a very good tennis player. He plays for the sport, he plays for exercise, for stress relief, and also just for the joy of playing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
TR: GS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"