Pope Francis missed a step and fell to the ground Thursday as he was coming to an open-air altar to celebrate Mass at Poland’s holiest shrine of Jasna Gora.
In a dramatic moment, the 79-year-old Francis, walking deep in thought in his long robe, did not notice a step down and fell to the ground before the altar. Priests around him rushed to help him up and straightened his robe.
The Mass proceeded as planned and the pope delivered a long sermon before tens of thousands of faithful gathered at the foot of the Jasna Gora monastery in the southern city of Czestochowa.
Asked if Francis had suffered any ill effects from the fall, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said “the pope is fine.”
On a couple of occasions in the past, Francis, wearing long robes at public ceremonies, has missed a step or even fallen down on stairs. Each time he has gotten up on his own or thanks to an aide lending a hand.
Every time, as he did Thursday, Francis has carried on without missing a beat for the rest of the long ceremonies.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
He and the rest of the Catholics are about to fall into the pit of hell when their time comes if they repent not of all their deceit, lies, and abominable teachings that are all contrary to the Word of God.
Jesus Christ warned us all about these false teachers and false prophets!
Glad to know you learned about these things.
How Right You Are .
NOT TRADITIONAL CATHOLICS,…. BY THE WAY, I WAS UNAWARE, OUR LORD SET YOU AS THE JUDGE… ROMAN CATHOLIC DEITY HELD BACK ON THE THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA, WHICH WAS FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD TO READ OPENLY, NOT JUST FOR POPES, CARDINALS, PRIESTS AND DEACONS IN THE VATICAN… IT WAS ABOUT THE VERY LIBERAL ECUMENICAL DOCUMENT, VATICAN II, WHICH OVERRODE THE COUNCIL OF TRENT’S DOCUMENT… SATAN WAS ALL OVER THOSE WORDS. NOW, GOD WILL HAND DOWN THE CHASTISEMENTS AS HE SENT OUR BLESSED MOTHER MARY, THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN BACK TO EARTH IN 1963 TO GARABANDAL THIS TIME WITH THE WARNINGS, MAKE NO MISTAKE, I BELIEVE FRANCIS TO BE AN APOSTATE ANTI POPE, AND QUITE POSSIBLY THE ANTICHRIST !!! WHY DO YOU NOTICE HIS POPULARITY DWINDLING !!! WE AS CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS, KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE, HE IS STATING ANTI RHETORIC ABOUT THE DOCTRINE, DOGMA, MAGISTRATE AND CATECHISM OF THE FAITH, TRYING TO PREPARE US FOR A ONE WORLD ORDER AND ONE WORLD FALSE RELIGION AND FALSE FAITH BASED AROUND ISIS. MOHAMED AND ALAH !!! SHARIA ISLAMIC LAW !!! A BELIEF SYSTEM, SO SATANIC TO GOD !!! THIS IS WHAT WE ARE FACING. FAITH AGAINST THE FACE OF EVIL !!! REMAIN LOYAL TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST !!! <3 <3 Amen <3 <3 !!! !
Jesus proclaimed Simon bar Jona a Rock on earth (Kepha in Aramaic, which was translated into the more widely used masculine Greek name Petros) and said that He would build His Church on that Rock, and that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. Jesus gave him the keys to the kingdom of heaven and the powers of binding and loosing on earth (Matthew 16:17-19). Jesus founded His Church 1,985 years ago. He sent His apostles to preach All that He had commanded them to All Nations, making it a Universal Church (katholke, in Greek) as in Matthew 28:18-20.. Jesus prayed that all His disciples would be united in One as He and the Father are One, so that the world might believe that the Father had sent Him (John 17). In Acts of Apostles and the letters of Paul and Peter, you can read of the many local churches United under the Authority of the apostles. That One Authorized Church is the Catholic Church, which shall last to the end of the world, as Jesus Himself said, even though there are imperfect and even sinful people and leaders in it, just as there were in the Israel of God. Read, Pray, Think, and Join that One Authorized Church of Jesus Christ. God bless.
Maybe the Catholic church should replace steps with inclines, at least when a service is going to be conducted by a visitor. The local priests may be able to make the step out of habit but the same is not true for visitors.
As Little Fanny Frannie, the Pope is full of Poop! The Pope is full of Poop! The Pope is full of Poop!
I guess I won’t have to wait for my judgement..already given by Dskap.
Thank God as he is more merciful.
Praise Jesus Christ!