{"id":21034,"date":"2025-09-14T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21034\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:09:11","slug":"pope-leo-reveals-he-was-assaulted-during-visit-to-ireland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21034\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo reveals he was assaulted during visit to Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">James Cox<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pope Leo has revealed he was physically assaulted during a visit to Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a recently resurfaced video from 2019, he detailed how a person set upon him in the street after saying &#8220;you&#8217;re a priest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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<p class=\"\">\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<p class=\"\">\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<p class=\"\">He added: &#8220;\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<p class=\"\">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":"James Cox Pope Leo has revealed he was physically assaulted during a visit to Ireland. In a recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4101,72,12780,61,60],"class_list":["post-21034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-assault","tag-business","tag-catholic-church","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034","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=21034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}