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POPE FRANCIS WAS left unimpressed with a group of worshippers in Mexico this morning after almost being dragged down.
The Pontiff fell onto a child in a wheelchair after over-enthusiastic crowd members rushed forwards to greet him.
The Argentinian leader of the Catholic Church told crowd members “don’t be selfish” in Spanish.
The 79-year-old pontiff today wraps up an intense, five-day trip to Mexico with a visit to Ciudad Juarez, the world’s former murder capital, where he will pray with inmates at a prison and lead the service at the border.
After pressing Mexican politicians, religious leaders and society to fight for a nation without drug cartels, Francis will turn his attention to migrants, an issue dear to him, on his last day.
A huge stage was set near the border fence for a mass with more than 200,000 people. Francis is expected to salute people watching on the other side of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas. The service will be also broadcast on a giant screen at a 51,000-capacity stadium in the US city.
Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump, who has promised to make Mexico pay to build a wall along the border, called the Pope a “very political person.”
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Imagine being told off by the Pope, you’d never forget it.
Bad karma
All they have to do is go to confession and all their sins will be absolved..
If they are genuinely sorry
With his leg?
He looks furious. Fair play to him for giving out, makes him look normal. I like this pope.
Do you like his condemnation of homosexuals, or the part where he told people exposed to zika not to wear contraception? So many sound traits – hard to decide.
Yup Neill, this guy has better PR than anyone I’ve ever seen. Either that or people desperately want him to be good so they can continue uninterrupted in their faith and why not? I mean it’s just silly things like him condemning marriage equality or that the Vatican (and I’m pretty sure he’s the head of that place) told Bishops recently that they are not obliged to report pedophiles, nothing really in comparison to franky being normal though eh?
@ Dell he is very concerned about climate change & encouraging economic migrants to cross boarders!
What a crap headline! He wasn’t bothered that he was being pulled down, he was bothered that it caused him to fall onto someone in a wheelchair!
If that was saint John Paul, the victim would have stood up and walked away. Its happened before you know. Miracles are miracles.
Fair play to him for losing his cool. There are a lot of selfish bástards out there…….
Mexico are building a wall voluntarily, to keep Trump out.
I enjoy this fella, a real breath of fresh air, he even looks sound.. That Benedict fella looked like an evil villain from a kids movie..
He always reminded me of Uncle Fester!
Ahh ya, the black eyes haha
Just because once a year he makes a “cool”, “modern” comment? He’s as backwards as any of them. Having said that, Palpatine, ah I mean Benedict, was a creep.
True he was a creep but at least he was honest about Church teachings. Was on point with the Chatecisms almost all the time.
Benedict was the image of the emperor from starwars.
Out of fairness he got a fright, he is 79 years of age after all. Furthermore he was more concerned for the person in the wheelchair and not himself.
Agree with earlier comment – he appears very normal and human compared to the last Pope who was a bit of a cold fish
@Shay. Normal as in a normal apologist for the churchs crimes : “The Vatican is trying to reassure Catholics and the public that Pope Francis takes the clerical sex abuse crisis seriously in the wake of defensive comments Francis made this week, the first serious bump in the road for a pope” http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/pope-francis-criticized-defensive-comments-abuse-scandal
I love how he lost his s###. Shows a more human side of him, rather than a robotesqe Pope. I’m in no way religious or a fan of the Catholic Church, but this guy seems ok to me.
He was right to be angry. People in crowds can get stupid, scarily dangerous. Anyone like the man in the wheelchair are horribly vulnerable. They needed reminding.
The power of love.
People just can’t help themselves.
Pope Francis is the most charismatic leader on the planet (even liberals and atheists love him) so understandable that ordinary folk want to get close to him.
If I ever meet him I’ll give him a big hug for all the people of Ireland.
Viva IL Papa.
I’m an atheist and I don’t love him. He’s still a homophobe, regressive, backwards and no ‘better’ than any of his predecessors. Comes out with a “cool” comment every so often and everyone fawns over him.
And responsibly directly and indirectly for the deaths of 3 million people from Aids yearly on this planet. Genocide
I’m starting to doubt your sincerity P-anti, can you explain where this article http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/new-cases-of-hiv-hit-highest-levels-in-five-years-336964.html fits into that 3 million. No mention of who’s responsible, the article doesn’t go far enough to explain the causes increase, but there is nothing wrong with the idea to abstain from activities that may increase the chances of getting infected and it spread..
@dni. Yes that’s how we’ll stop the spread of HIV and AIDS. Abstaining. The churches stance is widely publicized. : ” Francis also faced a question about the church’s teaching prohibiting use of artificial contraception from a journalist who asked if the church should consider changing its stance on the issue — particularly on the use of condoms — given the continuing spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The problem is actually pretty simple. Africa is riddled with AIDS and the Church is still in there telling people condoms are sinful. It’s a very simple question to which the Pope, even with insight from supposedly all-knowing god, has arrived at the wrong answer. – http://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/overview
> P-Anti have a read of this http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/controversy/aids-prevention-and-church-teaching/will-condoms-really-stop-aids-in-africa.html > It’s at odds with you’re stance. Have a read of this http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2015/std-surveillance-report-press-release.html It demonstrates that even in first world countries, condom use solve the problem….
Doesn’t ^
@dni. There is no way to solve the problem. There is no cure for Aids. But I can tell you what the Pope can do. Reduce the problem. Stand up, proclaim that God allows condoms, reduce the levels of infection. Simples. We can both post links to support our arguements : http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/30/pope-francis-condoms-aids-hiv-africa . For clarification, do you not believe the Pope should green light condoms in Africa, and if not, why ?
Here is another article, read the thing and let it sit,in your head for a while ok! http://chastityproject.com/qa/whats-wrong-with-shipping-condoms-overseas-to-help-with-the-aids-epidemic/
Careful now! Down with that sort of thing!
The Pope should stay out of politics and concentrate on superstitions. Its absolutely astonishing how hypocritical he is calling his fans selfish, in a poverty stricken country, while he parades around in his gucci’s with his gold staff while presiding over the most curupt bank on the planet surrounded by Billions in stolen Art. Red thumb away theists, ye hate facts.
P-Anti Matter-a Akbar!
Is it okay if we red thumb your horrendous assault on the English language and grammar?
Work away Phil, if that’s your only arguement. Mustn’t have been too bad as you’ve understood it enough to post the usual un-original nerds retort
Pants and all… lol.
P-anti
Why should the Pope stay out of politics anymore than you or I should?
I think it’s widely acknowledged that Pope JP2 was instrumental in the fall of communism.
Wasn’t that a good thing?
@Tom It was, if you weren’t a communist. And he was also instrumental in the systematic child abuse scandal he presided over during his papacy. Is that a good thing ?? Maybe if he stayed out of politics and concentrated on his remit, we might have a lot fewer victims. Imo.
A more accurate description of what happened here is that someone attempted to pull the Pope into the crowd, the security should not allow this happen.
Mexicans
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. James 1 19:20
The bible is full of good advise. Why do they have to make it creepy by talking about God’s desires.
Read John 2;13-17 and Mark 3;1-6 both examples of Jesus anger.
Also John 3:7 – “And Jesus kicked him in the balls”.
@Hughie. Cherry pickers Dont believe the bible, it’s themselves they believe. Its where your conscience comes into it. Too many evil verses in there really isn’t there ?
I’m not impressed with the pope in general.
Anyone who would declare Mother Teresa a saint is mentally delusional.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa a detestable evil woman.
I can’t get over the amount of people who fawn over that witch either.
A sick woman indeed. Refused sick patients medicine because she felt they were atoning for their sins with suffering and pain. Millions in aid money misused and they want to make her a saint ? That’s the RCC for ya.
But what did he say.
He didn’t say anything. He sang his latest number one and the crowd went wild.
“Do that again sham and I’ll give ya a dawk into the head”…
Liam. I will email and ask him and get back to you.
A pope in the eye
I’m going to go with the comical answer until I hear the truth- “feta feta feta scorchio”.
@Tony… I’ll hit ya with so many lefts, you’ll be begging me for a right.
Read the article ffs, it tells you what he said in the 3rd paragraph
Thanks Live Long, I only glanced at the article. I think he said something on top of that…. reads like Allahu Akbar or something.
Excellent..
I could have sworn he said WTF are you at ?
Who would be?
Jayz he looks fierce! Wouldn’t want to cross him.
Wouldn’t mess with lad he’d crucify ya
I continue to be amazed at the editor of this publication allowing such puerile and poorly constructed articles to be published.
He could hide paedophiles and people would still love him
So that’s where the remote control car came from.
Wether or not you like popes or religion rubbish whatever. Which I don’t. This has nothing to do with that. The nob that pulled him was a nob.
To the pope mobile!!!!!
It’s bad when the pope gets vexed with ya
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