What would provoke a man to punch a Catholic bishop in the face during Memorial Mass for the late Pittsburgh Pirate Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente? Must’ve been a Mets fan – PB/TK
Catholic bishop attacked on altar during Mass for baseball Hall of Famer
A Catholic bishop in New Jersey was slightly injured during a memorial Mass for a revered Hall of Fame baseball player when a crazed man in a white robe walked up to the altar and punched him in the mouth.
The attack Saturday caught the 63-year-old Most Reverend Manuel A. Cruz, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark, completely by surprise, knocking him backward until he fell on the altar, according Tapinto.net, a local news website.
Officers with the Essex County Sheriff’s Office rushed the altar and handcuffed the attacker, who may have showed up for the Mass at Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in a classic purple Cadillac Eldorado with a faux-zebra skin interior, the website reported.
Continue to foxnews.com article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/29/catholic-bishop-attacked-on-altar-during-mass-for-baseball-hall-famer.html
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