Pope Leo has revealed he was physically assaulted during a visit to Ireland.<\/p>\n
In a recently resurfaced video from 2019, he detailed how a person set upon him in the street after saying “you’re a priest”.<\/p>\n
Addressing a conference in Peru, the then-bishop referenced how attitudes to Catholicism have dramatically changed, especially in Ireland since the clerical abuse scandal broke in the 1990s.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever in my life, anywhere in the world, have I been physically attacked as I was in Ireland, for just going out on the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cA man passes by, he looks at me [and says] \u2018you\u2019re a priest\u2019 \u2013 and he starts attacking me. Fortunately, another Augustinian, who is twice as big as me, came to defend me.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: “\u201cI don\u2019t know if he was a victim or had lost faith in the church, I have no idea what happened to him. But I truly believe it is a very important factor in the experience here in the church as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is unclear when the attack took place, but Pope Leo is known to have visited Ireland twice, in 2005 and 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo has revealed he was physically assaulted during a visit to Ireland. In a recently resurfaced video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-19170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}