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Phelps Passes on Pope

by Tim Drake Friday, July 31, 2009 12:00 PM Comments (0)

Earlier reports that Olympic medalist Michael Phelps would be meeting with Pope Benedict XVI were premature.

According to The Associated Press, Phelps is skipping the meeting in order to rest before his final individual race of the world championships.

Pope Benedict is scheduled to host about 100 swimmers Saturday at Castel Gandolfo. Phelps was among those invited, but his coach, Bob Bowman, said he’ll be resting after three races Friday and the final of the 100-meter butterfly on Saturday night.

 

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Tim Drake is an award-winning journalist and author. He serves as senior writer with the National Catholic Register. His articles have appeared in publications such as Faith and Family magazine, Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic World Report, Catholic Exchange.com, Columbia Magazine, Gilbert! Magazine, This Rock Magazine, and many others. Tim has been a guest on both television and radio. He has appeared on Vatican Radio, FOX News, and EWTN. He is a frequent guest on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's The Catholic Channel. He co-hosts the weekly radio program "Register Radio" on EWTN, airing Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. Eastern. Tim has published six books - his most recent being the coffee-table book, Behind Bella: The Amazing Stories of Bella and the Lives it's Changed, (Ignatius Press, 2008) - and has contributed to several others.