Pope Paul heckled
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) VATICAN CITY, Nov. 9. Hundreds of homeless shanty-dwellers booed and jeered at Pope Paul yesterday as he gave his weekly Sunday blessing in St Peter’s Square. . . Men, women and children from shanty towns outside • Rome flocked into the square in a convoy of 50 battered cars shortly before the Pope appeared at his balcony window. Waving placards and shouting, “Houses! Houses!”, they began whistling and booing when the Pontiff apparently failed to notice them. Some produced mattresses and lay down in the square. The demonstration was one of the few occasions on which a Pope had been heckled inside the precincts of the Vatican. But the police made no attempt to move the protesters until Pope Paul had finished his address to the usual crowds of pilgrims in St Peter’s Square.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 19
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