“If the Church won’t condemn this atrocity, it won’t only be bulls slowly haemorrhaging.” Morrissey has written to the Pope urging him to end the Catholic Church's blessing of bullfights

Morrissey and Pope Francis.

Morrissey may not be able to persuade Johnny Marr to stand alongside him, but the former frontman of The Smiths is now seeking to forge a new alliance, with Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church. 

The Mancunian singer has written an open letter to the Pontiff urging him to end the Catholic Church's blessing of bullfights, stating that the killing of bulls “flies in the face” of the teachings of the patron saint of animals, Saint Francis, and warning “if the Church won’t condemn this atrocity, it won’t only be bulls slowly haemorrhaging.”