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Pope Francis has confessed he sometimes nods off while praying, and claims saints too have been known to grab some Holy shut-eye. “When I pray, sometimes I fall asleep,” he said in an episode of a Catholic TV2000 television program published Tuesday on Youtube. “Saint Thérèse did it too,” he said in reference to a 19th-century French nun, adding that Christians were called to feel like children lying in their fathers’ arms — a place conducive to napping, he implies. …

Armed Guard Was Asleep at NY Nuke Plant By JIM FITZGERALD 08.27.07, 4:56 PM ET WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - An armed guard was found asleep at the gate of an inner security ring around the Indian Point nuclear power plants, officials said Monday. The inspector who found the snoozing guard spent two minutes trying to rouse him before the guard "stood up and opened his eyes," said Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The guard was alone on the second of three security rings around the two plants in Buchanan, Sheehan said. He said other security measures at...

Call to suspend flights to U.S. after guards are filmed sleeping on the job By MARTIN DELAGO Last updated at 12:41pm on 3rd June 2007 A leading American Congressman has called for flights from one of Britain's biggest airports to New York to be suspended - after guards who should have been checking suitcases for bombs and guns were filmed sleeping or reading newspapers. Bennie G. Thompson - chairman of the Congress Homeland Security Committee - made the demand after watching secret TV footage from a six-month undercover investigation at Birmingham airport. He said: "If what I saw is the...