Pope Knocked Down Video:

Woman knocks down Pope video, Pope knocked down video: Pope unharmed delivers mass. Pope Benedict XVI who fell to the ground following an attack by an apparently deranged woman was full of composure and completed his mass in his traditional style.

Thankfully the octogenarian Catholic head was not injured and woman was overpowered by his security details.

The incident happened when the Pop was leading the mass to the altar. Woman who appeared from nowhere grabbed him and threw him on the ground.

For the religious head of Catholics, this must be a big shock and for his followers and Vatican it must have been a big embarrassment, especially coming on the Christmas.

Benedict XVI is theologically conservative, and his teaching and prolific writings defend traditional Catholic doctrine and values.

After a long career as an internationally noted academic, serving as a professor of theology at various German universities, he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1977.

In 1981, he settled in Rome when he became Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, one of the most important offices of the Roman Curia. At the time of his election as Pope, he was also Dean of the College of Cardinals, and as such the primus inter pares among the cardinals.

During his papacy, Benedict XVI has emphasized what he sees as a need for Europe to return to fundamental Christian values in response to increasing de-Christianisation and secularisation in many developed countries.

For this reason, he proclaims relativism's denial of objective truth—and more particularly, the denial of moral truths—as the central problem of the 21st century.

It is surprising how a woman apparently not in her senses was able to dog such comprehensive security arrangements and come so close to Pope Benedict XVI.

This is simply unprecedented and has not only amazed people across the world but also made them angry. Catholics are angry that how such an incident take place during the Christmas mass.

The good thing was that the Pope was not harmed despite falling to the ground from the intensity of the attack and completed the mass with grace.

Pope Benedict XVI is the 265th and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church and, as such, Sovereign of the Vatican City State.

He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005.

Later while addressing the mass the religious head of Catholics said “Conflict and lack of reconciliation in the world stem from the fact that we are locked into our own interests and opinions, into our own little private world”.