The Pope added: “This was truly a charitable undertaking for the sake of the most needy of our brothers and sisters.
“Yet, how much the world of football has changed since then.
“In particular, the financial footprint of the ‘Beautiful Game’ has greatly increased, and at times can risk making football only attractive for reasons of monetary profit.”
The Champions League defeat against Lazio ended Celtic’s hopes of European football after Christmas as they now cannot finish third in Group E and drop down to the Europa League.
Image caption,The meeting was held during a trip to Italy to face Roman side Lazio
On X, formerly known as Twitter, the club said it was “honoured” to have been granted an audience with Pope Francis.
Among the players present was http://kolechai.com/ captain Callum McGregor, US international Cameron Carter-Vickers and defender Liam Scales.
A number of back room staff were also in attendance.
Monique Olivier, who is 75 and already serving a life sentence, is on trial over charges of helping the late Michel Fourniret commit two murders, including Miss Parrish, and a kidnap.
Olivier later retracted the confession given in a 2005 interview with police.
In court on Wednesday she said that she admitted to “all the facts” of which she is accused.
The crimes date back to 1988 in the case of Marie-Angele Domece, who disappeared aged 18 from Auxerre, and 1990 for Miss Parrish.
The third charge is for complicity in the 2003 disappearance of nine-year-old Estelle Mouzin, whose body has never been found.
Fourniret was nicknamed the Beast of the Ardennes after he was convicted in 2008 of the murders of seven young women. In jail 10 years later, he confessed to also killing Miss Parrish and one other.
Olivier was also convicted in a 2008 trial, during which her role in aiding Fourniret’s murderous sex obsession was revealed.
Image caption,Joanna Parrish had been working as an English teacher in Auxerre when she was murdered
The court in Paris has been hearing from Francis Nachbar, the ex-prosecutor of the 2008 trial of Olivier and Fourniret.
He recounted how Olivier had told them during a police interview that her husband used her to reassure the victims and that they had tried to kidnap a girl at the station in Auxerre, but that had not worked.
She said they then went back a few months later.
Raped and killed
Mr Nachbar said they did not know about Miss Parrish then but that Olivier gave very clear and precise details about what she was wearing, what she was carrying and what happened to her.
She said that Miss Parrish “fought back” against Fourniret’s attack. Fourniret raped and killed her.
Mr Nachbar said that Olivier suddenly went very quiet and lowered her head during the interview and stayed silent for half an hour.
He said: “She was like a statue. I put my hand on her shoulder and said ‘Are you ok?’
“Another officer put two hands on her shoulders and said ‘Monique, stay with us’.”
The confession was later retracted, with Olivier saying she had been coerced into giving it.
In court, Mr Nachbar denied any implication that pressure was put on her.
Image caption,Fourniret, pictured here in 2004, died in jail two years ago
Mr Nachbar said the hardest moment during the interview was when they asked Olivier what had happened to Miss Parrish after that.
He said she replied that “the body was thrown into a body of water”.
Miss Parrish’s body was found in the River Yonne, not far from Auxerre, the following morning.
Olivier’s retraction of the statement in 2006 was one reason why Miss Parrish’s case was not included in the 2008 trial of Fourniret and Olivier.
Mr Nachbar said the decision to not include Ms Domece – the other murdered woman – and Miss Parrish in the original trial was “not my decision”.
He said they wanted to deal with the “first circle of victims”, as some of their relatives were very old.
He said that Ms Domece and http://jusnarte.com/ Ms Parrish’s cases were not ready and that everyone was in agreement that they would get to them in a “second circle” of cases.
“There was nothing more important than the victims’ families,” he continued.
Leona McGinty, 14, has a starring role in the video chosen by the global superstar for his track ‘Magical’ from his new album, Autumn Variations.
“I didn’t think it was real when they told me, I thought they were lying,” Leona said.
The video was made by pupils and staff from Finn Valley College in Stranorlar, County Donegal.
It’s one of 14 fan-created video chosen to accompany the songs on Sheeran’s new album .
Described as “a school love story with a Romeo and Juliet twist,” its stars were blissfully unaware it was being considered for the pop icon’s new album.
Image caption,Leona McGinty says she never thought in her wildest dreams she would be in an Ed Sheeran music video
The Donegal school saw off the competition from 4,000 entries in more than 75 countries.
Everyone involved in the video worked incredibly hard and was very proud, Leona said.
And they were sent a personal video of thanks from Sheeran.
“I was blushing red when I saw it, I couldn’t believe it,” she said.
She’s been a “big fan” of the superstar she said, “since she was a wee girl”.
Sheeran officially released the school’s video on Tuesday.
Other winning entries for songs come from the UK, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan, France, New Zealand, Taiwan, Mexico and India.
Secret project
The pupils owe their thanks to a member of staff at the school who spotted the competition by accident.
Edel Temple , a special needs assistant at Finn Valley College, told BBC’s North West Today radio programme that she chance upon it on social media.
“Ed had something up on his Instagram about fans making the videos for his new album, Autumn Variations, and straight away this idea came into my head of us making it in the school.
“I thought I’ll give it a go, just basically as a way to tell of just how amazing the school, the pupils and the area is.”
‘We wanted natural performances’
A few weeks later, Sheeran’s label Warner Music got in touch and invited Ms Temple to a Zoom call where she explained why the school wanted to shoot the video.
She said the school decided not to tell the students why they were making the video.
Teacher Martina Garry said this was partly to get “natural performances” from the pupils.
Only the parents and guardians of the pupils, and of course the teachers, knew what the performance was actually for.
“You can really tell that in the performance, they are really natural, the pupils are being themselves, they were really having fun with it,” she said.
“We felt that had we told them just how massive a project was then the nerves might have come in.”
Image caption,Tina Garry says winning the competition is a huge boost for the students
Ms Garry said informing the pupils that they had won the competition as they were sitting on a school bus was one of the best feelings in the world.
“They can aim for the stars, be whatever they want to be, and if you really have that sense of self-belief they can achieve great things,” she said.
“It’s wonderful for us, really uplifting http://kueceng.com/ for our school community and just a really positive thing to be doing.”
