While making a post about the saints, as in those in the Christian faith who are viewed as holy and close to God, Pope Francis accidentally tagged the NFL team. To make the timing worse, they had just fired their head coach.

Pope Francis seemed to inadvertently bless the New Orleans Saints — which couldn't come at a better time, as the NFL team just excommunicated their head coach. The head of the Catholic Church posted to X on Tuesday morning: “The #Saints are precious pearls and are always living and relevant,

The Saints have lost seven straight, including Sunday’s 23-22 defeat against the Carolina Panthers. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back as the New Orleans Saints would go on to fire head coach Dennis Allen. Pope Francis may have accidentally blessed the team after that move.

Halloween comes from the original name “All Hallows Eve,” which is the day before All Saints Day that honors martyrs and saints – those who were hallowed, or deemed holy – a tradition begun by the Roman Catholic church in the early medieval period.

The New Orleans Saints unexpectedly received a blessing from the Pope ahead of their game against the Panthers.

Everyone is making the same joke after Pope Francis had a tweet that mentions this NFL team, who's off to a poor start

Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church and frequent tweeter, accidentally tags the New Orleans Saints, again.Pope's tweets accidentally tag New Orleans Saints, again originally appeared on NB

The New Orleans Saints have had a pretty disappointing season so far with two wins and seven losses. It seemingly would take a miracle or some sort of divine intervention to turn their fortunes around this year.