It was the slap heard ’round the world — two slaps in fact — when Pope Francis smacked a female pilgrim in Rome on New Year’s Eve who grabbed his hand and wouldn’t let go.
Was it an isolated incident? Was he justified? Is this part of a pattern of angry behavior?
Those are the questions we seek to answer in this edition of the 1P5 Minute.
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