Also in the audience was a uniformed delegation from the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.
The Globetrotters performed for Pope Pius XII in 1951, St John XXIII in 1959 and Pope Paul VI in 1968. They met St John Paul II a number of times and even awarded him “honorary player” in 2000.
As I wrote the other day, to be insulted by Pope Francis is to be validated in one's Catholicism, since it seems the only people he will attack or insult are faithful Catholics. This time his focus is firmly on those who love the authentic rite of the Catholic Church, and he seems keen to send a warning that authentic Catholics who appreciate the patrimony of the Church will be rounded up and shipped out, at least the bishops who support them.