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    BBC News Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass



    A woman jumped the barriers and knocked the Pope down

    A shaken Pope Benedict has said Christmas Eve Mass in St Peter's shortly after being knocked over by a spectator who jumped a barrier. The woman, said to be mentally unstable, managed to grab him by his vestments near the neck area as a security guard tried to overwhelm her.
    The Vatican said she had also tried to jump at the Pope last year.
    French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, 87, was standing a few metres away and fell and broke his leg during the incident.
    Proceeding with the Mass, Benedict looked shaken and stumbled over some words.

    All of a sudden this person sort of flew over the barricade


    MaryBeth Burns
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    The service in the Vatican started two hours early because officials did not want the pontiff, 82, to get tired.
    As members of the 1.1-billion Catholic community celebrated Christmas around the world, thousands of pilgrims gathered in Bethlehem where Latin Patriarch Foud Twal, the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land, said the region's aspiration of peace remained out of reach.
    "The wish that we most want, we most hope for, is not coming," he said after passing into Bethlehem in a traditional holiday procession from nearby Jerusalem.
    "We want peace."
    Repeat incident
    The incident involving the Pope lasted only a few seconds and was caught on camera by at least one eyewitness.

    ANALYSIS

    David Willey, BBC News, Rome
    The Pope will next year celebrate his 83rd birthday. He is in relatively good health for his age but he was clearly shaken by the incident and stumbled several times over words in his homily.
    This was undoubtedly the most serious breach of security inside the Vatican in recent years.
    Although the Pope was physically unharmed by this sudden attack, security arrangements at papal ceremonies will have to be urgently reviewed as there was apparently a similar, but unsuccessful, attempt to hurt the Pope last Christmas.

    Dressed in a red hooded sweatshirt, the attacker leaped over the barrier towards the Pope, prompting gasps from the crowd.
    "All of a sudden this person sort of flew over the barricade and the Holy Father went down and all of a sudden all the security people were all on top of it, you know the whole pile there, getting her off and pulling him back up," eyewitness MaryBeth Burns, a US tourist, told the Associated Press.
    Security officials rushed down the main aisle to detain the woman, who was later arrested by police.
    Her name was not immediately known but the Vatican confirmed she was the same person who had tried to jump a barricade to get close to the Pope at the same service last year.
    The Pope had to be helped up by the master of ceremonies at his side, the BBC's David Willey in Rome says.
    The theme of his homily was selfishness which, he said, "makes us prisoners of our interests and our desires".
    The Vatican said earlier that the decision to move the midnight Mass to 2200 (2100 GMT) was "to make Christmas a little less tiring for the Pope, who has many engagements".
    The pontiff earlier appeared briefly at nightfall at the window of his studio to light a candle in a sign of peace.
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    In Bethlehem, festivities began with a traditional boy scout band and ended with midnight Mass in St Catherine's Church, next to the Church of the Nativity.


    Patriarch arrives in Bethlehem

    Arriving in Bethlehem, the Latin Patriarch said people in the region wanted freedom of movement.
    "We don't want walls, we don't want separation fences."
    Addressing worshippers, he added: "[This land's] inhabitants are brothers who see each other as enemies.
    "This land will deserve to be called holy when she breathes freedom, justice, love, reconciliation, peace and security."
    The Mass was said next to the church built over the stall where Mary is believed to have given birth to Jesus.
    Some 300 Christians over the age of 35 from the Gaza Strip were given permission by the Israeli military to leave the territory and come to Bethlehem for 24 hours to celebrate Christmas.
    A total of 15,000 tourists are expected in the town during this period, in a year that has seen a record number of visitors - some 1.6 million.


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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    The woman, said to be mentally unstable, managed to grab him by his vestments
    That sounds just wrong !

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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    I wouldn't mind my vestments being grabbed by a mentally unstable woman!

    Merry Xmas Pope you lucky old dog, no bishop bashing for you this year eh?

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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Just watched this on Italian TV, i thought it was a bloke lol

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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Shame she didn't kill him, now that would have been funny.
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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Security will have to be tightened up. If a mental case can get to him, next time it could be a gunman

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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Quote Originally Posted by Mickey View Post
    next time it could be a gunman
    I hope so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by -AMO- View Post
    I hope so.
    Why?

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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Because I am opposed to religion, especially such luminaries of religion as the pope who spreads his vile doctrine to the braindead masses which follow his every word while completely disregarding all sense of logic and rational thinking.
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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Quote Originally Posted by -AMO- View Post
    Because I am opposed to religion, especially such luminaries of religion as the pope who spreads his vile doctrine to the braindead masses which follow his every word while completely disregarding all sense of logic and rational thinking.
    Fair point, but there is no need to wish death on him.

    Merry Christmas.

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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Quote Originally Posted by -AMO- View Post
    Because I am opposed to religion, especially such luminaries of religion as the pope who spreads his vile doctrine to the braindead masses which follow his every word while completely disregarding all sense of logic and rational thinking.
    Miserable cunt!

    I therefore assume you are not celebrating Christmas in any shape or form at your gaff!!
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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Fuck him lets all become Jedis lol

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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    You knock one pope down another just popes back up again.


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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Quote Originally Posted by Mickey View Post
    Security will have to be tightened up. If a mental case can get to him, next time it could be a gunman

    If you watch the coverage on Sky news you'll see that security did get her before she got to him, she was just jammy to reach out and grab his scarf (vestments) as she was being jumped on.

    To be honest I feel sorry for the other doddery old Cardinal infront who the security landed on and broke his leg.

    Having said that though, the same woman tried to do it last year and she was wearing the same scarlet coat, so she shouldn't have even got within a mile of him.

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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Quote Originally Posted by diablos View Post
    You knock one pope down another just popes back up again.
    To be honest I don't think this one will see out 2010.

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    Default Re: Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas Mass

    Quote Originally Posted by 4me2 View Post
    To be honest I don't think this one will see out 2010.
    Agree, i've never quite got religion to be honest each to their own though.


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