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Members of the Pontifical North American College soccer team (in blue) play the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2007, with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background. The teams
are participants in the Clericus Cup, which lost its Vatican-sponsorship. Religion News Service photo by Francis X. Rocca.

Members of the Pontifical North American College soccer team (in blue) play the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2007, with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background. The teams
are participants in the Clericus Cup, which lost its Vatican-sponsorship.

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(RNS4-APRIL24) The Rev. James F. Quigley, team chaplain, leads the North American Martyrs —
a team of U.S. priests in training — in prayer before a recent soccer match in Rome. The Martyrs
represent the Pontifical North American College in the Clericus Cup, a Vatican-sponsored soccer
tournament for seminarians and priests. For use with RNS-VATICAN-SOCCER, transmitted April
24,2007. Religion News Service photo courtesy of Francis X. Rocca.