Woman knocks down Pope at Christmas Eve Mass

A woman jumped the barriers in St Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Christmas Eve Mass.

The 82-year-old pontiff got up unhurt and proceeded as planned with last night’s service.Witness video showed a woman dressed in a red-hooded sweatshirt vaulting over the wooden barriers that cordoned off the basilica’s main aisle and rushing toward the Pope before being swarmed bybodyguards.