Pope Bounces Back, Visits Soup Kitchen

Security heavy for first trip since Christmas Eve attack

By Marie Morris

Posted Dec 27, 2009 4:48 PM CST

Copied

Pope Bounces Back, Visits Soup Kitchen — In this photo released by the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, Pope Benedict XVI, in white in foreground, arrives at a lunch in a soup kitchen in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)

On his first trip outside the Vatican since being knocked to the ground in a Christmas Eve incident at St. Peter's, Pope Benedict XVI visited a soup kitchen in Rome today. The pontiff, 82, was unharmed when a woman vaulted a barrier and accosted him before Mass. Today he mingled with an appreciative crowd and distributed Christmas gifts to children at the institution, which serves the homeless, reports the Telegraph.

Read These Next

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy suffers stroke.
A look at why everyone appears to be reading the same books.
It's not just deer getting caught in the headlights anymore.
Will real chocolate become a luxury food?

Report an error