Pope Leo uses Winter Olympics to define Church’s relationship with sport

As the world’s attention turns to Italy for the Winter Olympics, Pope Leo XIV took the opportunity to send a letter marking the occasion.

Leo’s letter, however, didn’t only speak about the Olympics. More broadly, the pontiff’s letter was on “The Value of Sport” in the world.

Leo’s letter has appeared more than 20 years after Pope St. John Paul II established his “Church and Sport” office within the Pontifical Council for the Laity in 2004, the year the Summer Games were held in Greece...