Posted on 12/24/2009 2:10:54 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Witch.
Thanks Mark. It’s a better view but I can’t see where the
Cardinal comes into the picture. I keep looking for a red cap like the one he is wearing in the wheelchair as security pushes him away.
An APB just went out for Andrew Sullivan...
an another note, isn’t physically attacking the Pope one of the statutory grounds for automatic excommunication?
Thank You Mark - this is heartbreaking. Merry Christmas to you!
Off the Midnight Mass - Give Glory to God in the Highest!!! Merry Christmas Everyone.
Merry Christmas to you.
michelle obama ?
pelosi.?
clinton.....
the list goes on.
Cindy Sheehan?
Sounds like the work of one of those “Anti-Catholic” freepers that Free Republic is well known for.../sarc
According to this report, Woman knocks down Pope at mass,
THE woman who knocked over Pope Benedict XVI as he celebrated Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican was behind a similar attack last year, sources claim.
Fox News reporter Greg Burke told Sky News Australia "they are saying it is the same woman who last year tried to do it and was quickly taken away by security".
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi has confirmed that French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray suffered a broken femur.
This leader of the world's largest church needs to be protected 24/7 and not like the Swiss Guards did fifty years ago. There are very real and evil threats that want to do him harm and we need Pope Benedict XVI now much more than we need another martyr. Please keep him safe!
That looks like the same one who rushed him last time but did not get to him.
Dressed the same, black hair but got a hold of him this time.
Interesting that you’re both commenting on how big she was and some of the posts upthread refer to a rumor that this “woman” was acting because she believed his Christmas message was an attack on transsexuals...was the Pope attacked by a shemale?
Thankfully, the Pope was not seriously hurt, but it could have been a catastrophe. Security needs to be tighter for him than anyone in the world, IMO.
Let’s not jump to conclusions about the attacker until there is some official report that can be relied upon... Next we’ll read a post that suggests it was Barney Frank.
I mean, really...
Someone intercepted her (from the right, dressed in black) and I think her forward momentum was too much to keep her from reaching the Pope.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
God sent His Son that we might have life - and have it abundantly!
There’s no way Barney Frank could have jumped that barrier. :[)
The Pieta was attacked in 1977 by a deranged lunatic with a hammer.
The Pieta was attacked in 1977 by a deranged lunatic with a hammer.
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