World Cup 2026 Update

Carmelite Sisters of the Aged and Infirm Fall Under the Scottish Tartan Army Spell

The Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm in Germantown, New York, have caught the Scottish Tartan Army fever. They hosted John Mallon, co-founder of the Catholic production company, Sancta Familia Media, during these early days of the World Cup games. Hailing from Scotland, the home of the congregation’s foundress, Venerable Mother Angeline, Mr. Mallon made contact with the sisters to ask for hospitality. In fact, Mother Angeline and Mr. Mallon are both from Mossend, a small town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

 Finding the Carmelite sisters to be “some of the nicest women you can ever meet,” Mallon set about teaching them various Scottish chants. In a video posted on the internet, they can be seen waving small Scottish flags and singing “No Scotland, No Party” and “We’ll Be Coming.” The video was posted by Sancta Familia Media.

Scotland easily manhandled Haiti with a final score of 1-0 in their first game. Unfortunately, Morocco just managed to squeak by Scotland 1-0 in their second game.

Perhaps Venerable Mother Angeline was influencing the outcome of that second game. The other ancient tradition of the Scots is to climb atop the statue of the Duke of Wellington sitting on his horse in the middle of Glasgow and place a traffic cone on the Duke’s head. Today young Glaswegians will climb any statue to place a cone  and they have followed that tradition in Boston during the 2026 World Cup. Youtube shows various bronze statues around the city of Boston being crowned with orange traffic cones. Hopefully the sisters will not be training for that particular ritual.

The prayers of the sisters and not their songs will be required in the coming days. Scotland plays Brazil on June 24.

The video can be seen at: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZsL_MDR69I/