Catholics bring the spirit to Packers tailgate scene
Oct. 24, 2013
Written by Holly Meyer
Post-Crescent Media
GREEN BAY A few hours before the Green Bay Packers trounced the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, the Rev. Quinn Mann donned green vestments and brought the sacred to the secular near Lambeau Field, representing a renewed effort in the Roman Catholic church for believers to step out of the parish and evangelize.
As far as fall Sundays in Wisconsin go, Mann said it is hard to find a better place to intersect faith and culture than Titletown.
Catholics are beginning to understand that if you really truly want to engage a secular culture we need to be proactive, Mann said. That means allowing the message of the Gospel to really sink into our hearts, to have a relationship with Jesus Christ, but then to get back to the, as I like to say, the brass tacks, the root of it and that is to go out to all the world and spread the good news.
About 30 people, mostly teens who spent the weekend with Mann on a Catholic Youth Expeditions retreat, gathered for the parking-lot service in Ashwaubenon about a block southeast of the stadium.
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20131023/APC0101/310230419/Catholics-bring-spirit-Packers-tailgate-scene
1:24 video at link.