On New Year's eve, Pope Francis was going about his business, doing what Popes do - walking around St. Peter's Square, smiling, meeting the faithful, saying 'how do you do?'
He started to walk away from a group of people, when a woman (of unknown name, so we shall call her Ms Loon, for convenience sake) grabbed his hand and pulled him towards her.
By this time, mortification should have set in on her part but she is not named Ms Loon for nothing, so she carried on holding his hand in a vice-like grip.
Also, in my opinion, his security should have intervened by now and extricated Ms Loon and her hands from his holiness and his hand.
Alas, they did not, so his holiness had to literally take matters into his own hands. A couple of firm smacks on Ms Loon's grasping digits and he was a free man.
He did what any 83 year old would do when physically threatened. However, he is the head of the Catholic Church, so he has apologised and sought forgiveness.
I hope Ms Loon does the same.
Mind you, as a show of good will, the Vatican could offer to pay for Ms Loon to have a few therapy sessions.
Not because she appears to think nothing of grabbing and flinging the elderly about (although there is that) but - if you're Catholic - the Pope is the last person on God's earth whose wrath you want to incur.
Until next time, try and keep it light and be kind to each other, especially the elderly.
A lighter look at Pope Francis and the New Year's eve incident
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