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Woman topples Pope at Xmas mass in Vatican | An 'unbalanced woman' jumped the barriers in St. Peter's Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass, a Vatican spokesman said Thursday. But according to the New York
Times,
the pope quickly got back on his feet and celebrated Mass before thousands of
the faithful, urging them in his homily to become "truly vigilant people." Television
images showed a woman in red leap toward Benedict, 82, as he began to walk up
the central aisle, as the police and bodyguards scrambled to his aid. The woman
also knocked down Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, said the spokesman, the Rev.
Federico
Lombardi. The Vatican police took the woman in for questioning, and Cardinal
Etchegaray
was taken to an emergency room for a check up, the news agency ANSA reported.
The woman did not appear to have "malicious intentions," ANSA said. It was not
immediately clear whether she was the same woman stopped by the police last year
after trying to lunge at the pope as he left the Basilica. |
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