VATICAN CITY — Hospital officials and the Vatican say Pope Benedict XVI broke his right wrist in a fall during his vacation in the Alps.
Tiziano Trevisan, a spokesman at the Umberto Parini hospital in Aosta, told The Associated Press, "The pope will be held for a few hours as the doctors treat his fracture. He will then stay for observation."
Trevisan said doctors had taken an X-ray of the pope's right wrist and found a small fracture. The pope is 82 and has been healthy during his five-year pontificate.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said earlier that Benedict "slipped and got hurt" but "it doesn't seem to be serious."
Lombardi said the pope went to the hospital in Aosta for an examination after the accident.
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Pope Benedict XVI is being treated in hospital for a broken wrist and twisted ankle after slipping in his bathroom while on holiday.
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Reuters:
...The fracture was caused by a fall during the night while he was on holiday in northern Italy and he would have to wear a cast for about a month, the Vatican said.
"The most upsetting thing for him is not being able to write, something that he had planned to do frequently during these days," Lombardi said.
Pope 'can't pray' with wrist in plaster
(AFP) – 20 hours ago ( July 18)
AOSTA, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI celebrated mass Saturday with his broken wrist in plaster but bemoaned an inability to clasp his hands together in prayer, his closest officials said.
"He is learning to live with a right wrist in plaster," Federico Lombardi told AFP, the day after the pope was hospitalised after a fall while on holiday. "The most difficult thing for him is having to give up writing."
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He had slipped and fallen in his bedroom during the night, a Vatican statement said.
Comments:
Shifra said:
BS'D
S-HALOM uvracha, Daisy
Just a quick note to say "AMEN"
to your comments.
May we be 'zoche' to very soon see
the REDEMPTION promised by H-AKADOSH
BARACHU...and the demise of all our
enemies!
S-HABBAT S-HALOM
B'ahavat ELOKIM vEretz Yisrael
Shifra Hoffman
bill corrected me, rightly so:
"HE, WHO RAISES HIS HAND AGAINST THE JEWISH PEOPLE...."
nik said:
I thought he was flawless...? a perfect human being...? how could he slip...? aw... shucks.... they've been lying to us again... what a shame... now i don't believe he fell or slipped or had an accident... i don't believe anything no matter how trite or trivial that i hear in the media... i reject it all out of hand... but it's just too bad he didn't slide down the entire mountain and break his nazi-neck!!! nik. out...
DS: So if you don't believe he slipped, what is it you believe, in this case?
nik: i have no idea... how about pounded his hand on a table in nazi-rage over whatever... israel not caving over jerusalem fast enough for "his hindass"...? nik. out...
DS: The first report stated he slipped in his bathroom. That is humiliating enough. Then THE VATICAN doctored the version to say he fell in his bedroom; a little bit more dignified....
QUITE SYMBOLIC, WOULDN'T YOU SAY? Even if "the faithful" don't get it, we sure do.
AP: "... the pontiff had to take off his ring — the large gold Fisherman's ring that signifies his papal authority. The pontiff usually wears it on his right ring finger; as he left the hospital, the ring was visible on his left ring finger.
The ring which features the figure of St. Peter casting his net from a fisherman's boat, is traditionally kissed by the faithful when they meet the pontiff in a sign of respect.
THIS SHOULD GIVE YOU ALL, ENEMIES OF HASHEM, THE G-D OF ISRAEL, AND ENEMIES OF ISRAEL, FEAR OF THE LORD, AND FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
DO NOT MESS WITH JERUSALEM. YOU MESS WITH JERUSALEM, YOU MESS WITH THE MOST HIGH, HASHEM TZEVAOT, THE LORD OF HOSTS; SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!
... AND JUST A REMINDER TO BENEDIKT:
1. FIRST IT WAS THE 800 DROWNED DOGS IN THE TIBER RIVER, WHICH OVERFLOWED TO WITHIN METERS OF THE VATICAN
2. THEN IT WAS ALL THE FLATTENED CHURCHES IN ABRUZZO ...
STILL, PHARAOH WOULDN'T LISTEN....
3. SO NOW IT IS A BROKEN WRIST AND A TWISTED ANKLE ON HIS VERY OWN PERSON....
WILL HE LISTEN, OR WILL HE PERSIST? WILL HIS ARROGANCE AND CHUTZPAH OVERRIDE HIS COMMON SENSE, OR WILL HE FINALLY UNDERSTAND, AND KEEP HIS HANDS OFF JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL?
See also the post:
BEHIND THE HEADLINES.....
TIME WILL TELL: THIS SHOULD BE AN INTERESTING STORY, FULL OF SUSPENSE, TO FOLLOW: CHAPTER IV, TO BE CONTINUED......
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