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Did not know that coach is a Catholic



Screen cap of Coach Joe having ash on his forehead for ash Wednesday. Cool to know as I am a Catholic as well.

by Alone_Profession_211

44 Comments

  1. Scrabbydatdat_TheLad

    Besides his “Jesus Mary and Joseph” comment when the British Royal Family was in town, he also pretty consistently wears a cross pin on his shirt during games.

    Love this coach

  2. He’s from RI, there’s like 4 Catholic churches per town here

  3. sugarray4three

    Damn I must’ve been living under a rock. All these years and didn’t know ash on forehead was a Catholic tradition…or even practiced at all lmao. TIL!

  4. ekydfejj

    Wow, you don’t listen to him much do you? I’m very much not religious, Joe is as religious as they come, within sanity levels /s

  5. The pride of Bishop Hendricken, of course he’s going to Ash Wednesday

  6. conciergent

    I heard he gave up watching The Town for Lent this year.

  7. PoppinfreshOG

    Wow, you have not been paying attention at all this season huh? I’ve seen him described as ā€œsuper Catholicā€ on this sub a bunch of times

  8. hymen_destroyer

    You’re surprised that the coach of the **BOSTON** **CELTICS** is catholic?

    am I being trolled?

  9. killsafety

    Serious question: HOW can you be a Catholic after systemic sexual abuse of children was found to have occurred and been covered up THROUGHOUT the entire church? Do you just ignore that so you can smear crap on your forehead? Disgusting. Fuck that religion

  10. BelichicksBurner

    There’s very heavy Catholic representation in American pro sports.

  11. Emotional_Act_461

    I assumed he was half Italian with a name like Mazulla.

  12. KnowsNotOfWhatISpeak

    He wears a cross on his shirt every game

  13. cahilljd

    He does wear a cross pin on his ahirt every single game and talks about it a good bit.

    Shoutout to the time he was asked to comment on the prince and princess of Wales being at the game and he said the only royal family he recognizes is Jesus Mary and Joseph šŸ˜†

  14. backpage_alumni

    You don’t have to be catholic to partake. But I’m pretty sure he has Italian inem going off his last name

  15. He’s an Italian American from Rhode Island. We’re all catholic.

  16. BedSpring11

    Can we keep all the Jesus talk in the Jesus sub

  17. andhemac

    Don’t need to be Catholic to participate in Ash Wednesday

  18. DudeFanLala

    Episcopalians do the ashes on the forehead too.

  19. He always wears a cross on his sweater during games

  20. Boston has a catholic Celtics coach, what’s next a Catholic president?

  21. He went to Bishop Hendricken in RI for high school. The priest from his time at Hendricken sits behind the bench at a lot of games

  22. horseshoeoverlook

    The ash was terribly put by the priest smh

  23. Longjumping_Gain_807

    Yeah I knew. He went to Catholic school. And it’s a very prominent part of his personality

  24. Warlord10

    Remember when he was asked about his thoughts on the Royal family being in attendance, and he answered, “Who, Jesus, Mary and Joseph?’.

    That was a nice line and burn. Why tf would a guy from Rhode Island care about the British royals? Lol.

  25. MimiEdward

    He is proud of his faith. I am a Catholic too.

  26. Classic_Run_4836

    Ben Shapiro watching this “Hell Yeah, we’re back!”

  27. Son_of_Atreus

    He is super religious, doesn’t really come up in basketball, thankfully (*cough, Mark Jackson, cough*)

  28. SongYoungbae

    I know this is reddit so my expectations were low but holy shit

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