World Cup Founder, Jules Rimet, Motivated by Rerum Novarum

He was born the same year as Saint Therese, 1873, in Theuley, France. and died in 1956.

CNA, Mary Rezac: Starting this weekend, an estimated 3.2 billion people the world over will tune in to watch the 2018 World Cup, an international soccer tournament founded by a Catholic man from a small village in France. Story is here.