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 ...

It's been a tough season for the New Orleans Saints, as a promising 2-0 start has since turned into a 2-7 disaster, leading to the firing of head coach

Pope Francis inadvertently included the New Orleans Saints' hashtag in two different social media posts this week, prompting a response from the team.

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

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.

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.

On the day the New Orleans Saints trade away Marshawn Lattimore, the team gets an accidental shoutout from Pope Francis.