‘In the name of Christ, stop!’

Romans cheered when defeated gladiators were killed by the victor.  Catholic influence put an end to brutal battles to the death.  As we think about permanent brain damage inflicted on modern football players, we consider death then and permanent brain damage, today.  We recall the words of Ronald Reagan in 1984:

“A Catholic monk, St. Telemachus, lived in a tiny village far from Rome.  He spent most of his time in prayer.  One day he heard the voice of God telling him to go to Rome. Weeks later, he arrived during a festival.  He followed a crowd into the Coliseum.  In the midst of this great crowd, he saw the gladiators come forth, stand before the Emperor, and say, ‘We who are about to die salute you.’ And he realized they were going to fight to the death for the entertainment of the crowds. He cried out, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’ And his voice was lost in the tumult there in the great Colosseum.

As the games began, he made his way down through the crowd, climbed over the wall and dropped to the floor of the arena. Suddenly the crowds saw this scrawny little figure making his way out to the gladiators and saying, over and over again, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’ And they thought it was part of the entertainment, and were amused. But then, when they realized it wasn’t, they grew belligerent and angry.

As he was pleading with the gladiators, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’ one of them plunged his sword into his body. And as he fell to the sand of the arena in death, his last words were, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’ And suddenly, a strange thing happened. The gladiators stood looking at this tiny form lying in the sand. A silence fell over the Colosseum. And then, someplace up in the upper tiers, an individual made his way to an exit and left.  Others began to follow. And in the dead silence, everyone left the Colosseum. That was the last battle to the death between gladiators in the Roman Colosseum. Never again did anyone kill or did men kill each other for the entertainment of the crowd.”

Reagan concluded: “One tiny voice that could hardly be heard above the tumult. ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’  is something we could be saying to each other throughout the world today.”

Today, defeated football players are not killed if they lose.  But, their brains are seriously and permanently damaged.  When those who love their neighbors realize what is being done to the endlessly concussed brains of football players, we may join St. Telemachus in crying:  ‘In the name of Christ, stop!’

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