First he smiles – then he gets really angry: Pope Francis defended himself against a clinging woman on St. Peter’s Square on New Year’s Eve.
The Pope is surrounded and touched by believers almost every day – now it was too much for Francis: a woman did not want to let go of her hand when the 83-year-old died in St. Peter’s Square on New Year’s Eve Rome attended the nativity scene among many believers. You can see how the woman pulls him over and Francis, obviously angry, gives her hand a slap Video,
Francis apologized on Wednesday. “Sometimes we lose patience, I apologize for the bad example,” he said at the Angelus prayer after the New Year fair.
It is not the first time that the pontiff has refused physical contact. In March, he pulled a hand away from an audience in Italy because they wanted to kiss it. The later shared Vatican also that Francis did this for hygiene reasons because he wanted to prevent the spread of germs.
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