From Vatican defends Francis’s fury as ‘human’
The Vatican has defended Pope Francis’s “human reaction” after he briefly lost his temper when an over-enthusiastic admirer in Mexico tugged him over on top of a child in a wheelchair.
The 79-year-old pontiff was greeting worshipers Tuesday in the city of Morelia when a member of the crowd pulled him forward by the hand, causing Francis to fall on top of the wheelchair user.
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The pope straightened up with the help of his bodyguards and smiled briefly before his face turned stern and he told an excited admirer: “Don’t be selfish.”
He soon started to smile again and hand out rosaries.
“It was a normal human reaction” to certain admirers’ “excessive enthusiasm,” Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi tells reporters.
— AFP
The Times of Israel Community.