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This is a wake up call to beef up his security...because if this woman had a gun or knife the world would have seen a Pope murdered.

I'd hate to see that, for sure.

Not a Catholic but I respect the Pope.

Would have been nice if he had clocked her, though! ;-)

"Would have been nice if he had clocked her, though! ;-)"

Seeing as the Holy Father was unharmed, I'd say a little levity is called for and as such, I must also agree. That would make a great screensaver!

Thank you, humblegunner. Older people find falls very scary, and with good reason. Mortality rates are disturbingly high for an elderly person in the year after a broken hip. This comes from a secondary series: broken hip --> impaired mobility --> compromised pulmonary activity --> pneumonia --> death. That's the most common event cascade.

On Google News I notice that most articles don't even mention Cardinal Roger Echeveria, 87, whose leg was broken. I will pray for Benedict, and for Roger, and for the female assailant who is evidently mentally ill.

(I say "mentally ill," but my husband remarks that if somebody's "hearing voices" or some such thing, being told to attack the Pope on Christmas, repeatedly --this was her second attempted assault and battery on the Pope--- you have to wonder about, I don't know, other influences...)