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Vatican City, Sep 10, 2017 \/ 10:40 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis is fine after a mishap on the popemobile in Colombia, when he slipped and hit himself trying to reach a child, prompting a wave of concern on social media.<\/p>\n

<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PopeinColombia?src=hash\">#PopeinColombia<\/a> hit himself on the popemobile trying to reach a child. Vatican says he&#39;s fine, is using ice to lower swelling on face <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qXnhtGaqtS\">pic.twitter.com\/qXnhtGaqtS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Elise Harris (@eharris_it) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eharris_it\/status\/906915308119756800\">September 10, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>
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\u201cThe Pope is fine,\u201d Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told members of the press corps traveling with Pope Francis in Colombia. He said Francis hit his cheek and eyebrow on the popemobile when it stopped abruptly as he was reaching for a child, and is using ice to lower the swelling.<\/p>\n

In a tweet sent by Colombian radio station \u201cCaracol Radio,\u201d the Pope is seen with a black eye and bandage near his eyebrow, with a few spots of blood on his white cassock. In the video, when the journalist asks the Pope if he's alright, Francis nods and then jests, saying \u201csomebody punched me!\u201d<\/p>\n

<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">???? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/URGENTE?src=hash\">#URGENTE<\/a> &quot;Me di una pu\u00f1ada, estoy bien&quot; dice <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElPapaEnCaracol?src=hash\">#ElPapaEnCaracol<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SwKrpzSCb3\">https:\/\/t.co\/SwKrpzSCb3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mcG2JfAZIe\">pic.twitter.com\/mcG2JfAZIe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Caracol Radio (@CaracolRadio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaracolRadio\/status\/906914434874003457\">September 10, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>
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The incident happened in Cartagena on the last day of his Sept. 6-11 visit to Colombia, which also took him to the cities of Bogota, Medellin and Villavicencio.<\/p>\n

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Vatican City, Sep 10, 2017 \/ 10:40 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis is fine after a mishap on the popemobile in Colombia, when he slipped and hit himself trying to reach a child, prompting a wave of concern on social media.<\/p>\n

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”><a href=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PopeinColombia?src=hash”>#PopeinColombia<\/a> hit himself on the popemobile trying to reach a child. Vatican says he's fine, is using ice to lower swelling on face <a href=”https:\/\/t.co\/qXnhtGaqtS”>pic.twitter.com\/qXnhtGaqtS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Elise Harris (@eharris_it) <a href=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/eharris_it\/status\/906915308119756800″>September 10, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>
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“The Pope is fine,” Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told members of the press corps traveling with Pope Francis in Colombia. He said Francis hit his cheek and eyebrow on the popemobile when it stopped abruptly as he was reaching for a child, and is using ice to lower the swelling.<\/p>\n

In a tweet sent by Colombian radio station “Caracol Radio,” the Pope is seen with a black eye and bandage near his eyebrow, with a few spots of blood on his white cassock. In the video, when the journalist asks the Pope if he’s alright, Francis nods and then jests, saying “somebody punched me!”<\/p>\n

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”es” dir=”ltr”>???? <a href=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/URGENTE?src=hash”>#URGENTE<\/a> &quot;Me di una puñada, estoy bien&quot; dice <a href=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElPapaEnCaracol?src=hash”>#ElPapaEnCaracol<\/a>. <a href=”https:\/\/t.co\/SwKrpzSCb3″>https:\/\/t.co\/SwKrpzSCb3<\/a> <a href=”https:\/\/t.co\/mcG2JfAZIe”>pic.twitter.com\/mcG2JfAZIe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Caracol Radio (@CaracolRadio) <a href=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaracolRadio\/status\/906914434874003457″>September 10, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>
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The incident happened in Cartagena on the last day of his Sept. 6-11 visit to Colombia, which also took him to the cities of Bogota, Medellin and Villavicencio.<\/p>\n

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Vatican says he's fine, is using ice to lower swelling on face <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qXnhtGaqtS\">pic.twitter.com\/qXnhtGaqtS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Elise Harris (@eharris_it) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eharris_it\/status\/906915308119756800\">September 10, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> “The Pope is fine,” Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told members of the press corps traveling with Pope Francis in Colombia. He said Francis hit his cheek and eyebrow on the popemobile when it stopped abruptly as he was reaching for a child, and is using ice to lower the swelling. In a tweet sent by Colombian radio station “Caracol Radio,” the Pope is seen with a black eye and bandage near his eyebrow, with a few spots of blood on his white cassock. In the video, when the journalist asks the Pope if he's alright, Francis nods and then jests, saying “somebody punched me!” <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">???? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/URGENTE?src=hash\">#URGENTE<\/a> &quot;Me di una puñada, estoy bien&quot; dice <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElPapaEnCaracol?src=hash\">#ElPapaEnCaracol<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SwKrpzSCb3\">https:\/\/t.co\/SwKrpzSCb3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mcG2JfAZIe\">pic.twitter.com\/mcG2JfAZIe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Caracol Radio (@CaracolRadio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaracolRadio\/status\/906914434874003457\">September 10, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> The incident happened in Cartagena on the last day of his Sept. 6-11 visit to Colombia, which also took him to the cities of Bogota, Medellin and Villavicencio.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/09\/vatican-pope-francis-is-fine-after-hitting-face-on-popemobile\/","og_site_name":"Catholic News","article_published_time":"2017-09-10T16:40:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/PF_hits_himself_on_popemobile_CNA.jpg"}],"author":"CNA Daily News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"CNA Daily News","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/09\/vatican-pope-francis-is-fine-after-hitting-face-on-popemobile\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/09\/vatican-pope-francis-is-fine-after-hitting-face-on-popemobile\/","name":"Vatican: Pope Francis 'is fine' after hitting face on popemobile","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-09-10T16:40:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-09-10T16:40:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/#\/schema\/person\/35d4bd7addc580050842c844a11575f1"},"description":"Vatican City, Sep 10, 2017 \/ 10:40 am (CNA\/EWTN News).- The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis is fine after a mishap on the popemobile in Colombia, when he slipped and hit himself trying to reach a child, prompting a wave of concern on social media. <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PopeinColombia?src=hash\">#PopeinColombia<\/a> hit himself on the popemobile trying to reach a child. Vatican says he's fine, is using ice to lower swelling on face <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qXnhtGaqtS\">pic.twitter.com\/qXnhtGaqtS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Elise Harris (@eharris_it) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eharris_it\/status\/906915308119756800\">September 10, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> “The Pope is fine,” Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told members of the press corps traveling with Pope Francis in Colombia. He said Francis hit his cheek and eyebrow on the popemobile when it stopped abruptly as he was reaching for a child, and is using ice to lower the swelling. In a tweet sent by Colombian radio station “Caracol Radio,” the Pope is seen with a black eye and bandage near his eyebrow, with a few spots of blood on his white cassock. In the video, when the journalist asks the Pope if he's alright, Francis nods and then jests, saying “somebody punched me!” <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">???? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/URGENTE?src=hash\">#URGENTE<\/a> &quot;Me di una puñada, estoy bien&quot; dice <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElPapaEnCaracol?src=hash\">#ElPapaEnCaracol<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SwKrpzSCb3\">https:\/\/t.co\/SwKrpzSCb3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mcG2JfAZIe\">pic.twitter.com\/mcG2JfAZIe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Caracol Radio (@CaracolRadio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaracolRadio\/status\/906914434874003457\">September 10, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> The incident happened in Cartagena on the last day of his Sept. 6-11 visit to Colombia, which also took him to the cities of Bogota, Medellin and Villavicencio.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/09\/vatican-pope-francis-is-fine-after-hitting-face-on-popemobile\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/09\/vatican-pope-francis-is-fine-after-hitting-face-on-popemobile\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/09\/vatican-pope-francis-is-fine-after-hitting-face-on-popemobile\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Vatican: Pope Francis ‘is fine’ after hitting face on popemobile"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/","name":"Catholic News","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/#\/schema\/person\/35d4bd7addc580050842c844a11575f1","name":"CNA Daily News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8f1180c7dca7995d4a997aac72a3a88a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8f1180c7dca7995d4a997aac72a3a88a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"CNA Daily News"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/author\/cna-daily-news\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}