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Can the beautiful game actually lead you closer to God? Carlo Castillo thinks so. He's a football creator who blends World Cup takes with the Catholic faith, and he joins Sips With Serra for a conversation that starts with the just-finished World Cup — the online pile-on against Argentina, the referee controversies, and Spain's surprising rise — and slowly turns into something a lot deeper.

We get into the surprising amount of Catholicism baked into the sport (Our Lady of Luján on the shin guards and in Argentina's locker room), whether anything Messi accomplished really matters without eternity, and Carlo's own journey — drifting as a teenager, nearly becoming Mormon, studying theology at Franciscan University, and coming back to a passionate Catholic faith.

From reaching Muslim and Buddhist audiences with genuine respect, to prayer and spiritual dryness, to the Exorcist Files and Fr. Carlos Martins, to how a brand-new fan should actually get into soccer (spoiler: it's the rivalries) — this one is part sports talk, part testimony, and a blueprint for evangelizing the culture from the inside.

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