Surgeons have operated on Pope Benedict XVI, after the pontiff broke his right wrist during a particularly energetic saluting fit whilst enjoying a holiday in Northern Italy.
"The Pope was having an emotional reunion with other former members of his Hitler Youth flak unit," said Dr Theodor Morelli, personal physician to the leader of the world's Catholics. "Somebody started singing the Horst Wessel song, one thing led to another and the next thing you know, all these old warhorses are leaping about with their right arms flailing about like pistons."
The 82-year-old Benedict was scheduled to lead the recital of the Angelus in nearby Romano Canavese on Sunday, but his spokesman, Monsignor Georg Schweinhund, has refused to confirm whether the event will now go ahead.
"We spent the best part of a year breaking His Holiness' habit of punching the rostrum with both fists and stretching his right arm to the sky whenever he spoke in public," he told reporters. "Now it looks like we'll have to start all over again."
Doctors are thought to have put the pontiff's entire right arm and shoulder in a rigid cast, but say he has quickly learned to jerk his torso backwards from the hips, flinging the injured arm upwards, in his efforts to salute his millions of brainwashed followers.
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