Pope Francis and all the audience gathered on Feb. 2 was interrupted by a maskless man shouting: "God rejects you. Father. You're no a king."
The Vatican police and Swiss Guard immediately arrived and escorted the man out of the Vatican's Pope Paul VI audience hall.
While there's no exact reason of his protest, the man shout saying "this is not the church of God."
He was sitting alone at the back of many audience in the Paul VI hall, began shouting to the Pope.
Pope ended his hour-long greeting to pilgrims and said: "We heard a man who was screaming, shouting, who had some kind of problem." "I don't know if it is physical, psychological or spiritual, but he is a brother of ours who has a problem."
"I would like to finish by praying for him, our brother who is suffering, poor man," he continued. "If he's yelling it is because he is suffering, has some problem. Let's not be deaf to the needs of this brother."
A witness at the event said the man was an Irish citizen living in Rome who had made similar outbursts in several Roman accessions.
🇻🇦 A shouting man denouncing the Church disrupts an audience by Pope Francis at the Vatican, before being escorted outside by police.
— euronews (@euronews) February 2, 2022
The Pope offered to pray for the man, saying "we must not be deaf to this brother's needs". pic.twitter.com/mARHWz32Gu
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