Amazing how many guys here want to slug a small Chinese woman, seemingly in anguish, who dared to clutch the hand of a Pope! The Pope is a big man (he could use a diet, frankly) who certainly wasn’t going to be overcome by a small woman. He reacted like the guttersnipe we’ve all suspected he is privately.
I’m with you MM. The really scary part was the anger on his face. He could have paused and instead of slapping her hands he could have held them and shown kindness. I believe that is what Christ would have seen, a woman needing love.
Amazing how many guys here want to slug a small Chinese woman, seemingly in anguish, who dared to clutch the hand of a Pope! The Pope is a big man (he could use a diet, frankly) who certainly wasn’t going to be overcome by a small woman. He reacted like the guttersnipe we’ve all suspected he is privately.
+1!
He’s an 83 year old man. No 83 year old man should be treated that way. Period.
Does him being the Pope open him up to any kind of treatment? Evidently so...
How many millions of people need the Pope’s help? Billions would be the answer.
He can’t help them all, and it’s no excuse to treat him that way, and I think you know it down deep inside.
Were his words intemperate and wrong? Yes, I believe they were.
We have our differences with the man. He’s the worst Pope in my lifetime, to my knowledge. I still think we need to be reasoned about how he reacts to someone whipping him around 180 degrees quickly.
Part of his reaction was understandable, and some of it was unacceptable.