Like a pope to water
When Pope Francis addressed top swimmers in Rome for the prestigious Sette Colli championships, he offered them a meditation on water, and his blessing.
Swimmers can help to build a “different culture of water”, that recognises water as the source of life, including Christian life, through baptism, he told them.
29 June 2017, The Tablet
Like a pope to water
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