Marquette UniversityArchive-It Partner Since: Dec, 2010Organization Type: Colleges & UniversitiesOrganization URL: http://www.marquette.edu The mission of Marquette University Libraries' archives program is to collect and service records of enduring historical value for research, instructional, and administrative use. Recognizing that information is increasingly maintained, distributed, and sought in electronic format, in late 2009 archivists conducted a pilot project to capture websites published by Marquette University. In addition, archivists preserved the websites of several organizations whose historical records are preserved by the archives, including the Catholic Worker website. ||||| The mob scene witnessed as Pope Francis arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Monday took place because his driver made a wrong turn, church and Brazilian authorities said. 
 
 In this image from video, a crowd mobs the silver Fiat carrying Pope Francis, center, through Rio de Janeiro on Monday, July 22, 2013. Ecstatic believers forced the closed Fiat to stop several times as... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this image from video, a crowd mobs the silver Fiat carrying Pope Francis through Rio de Janeiro on Monday, July 22, 2013. Ecstatic believers forced the closed Fiat to stop several times as they swarmed... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this image from video, a crowd mobs the silver Fiat carrying Pope Francis through Rio de Janeiro on Monday, July 22, 2013. Ecstatic believers forced the closed Fiat to stop several times as they swarmed... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this image from video, a crowd mobs the silver Fiat carrying Pope Francis through Rio de Janeiro on Monday, July 22, 2013. Ecstatic believers forced the closed Fiat to stop several times as they swarmed... (Associated Press) 
 
 Rio Transportation Secretary Carlos Osorio said the Fiat that Francis was riding in from the airport to the city center inadvertently turned into the wrong side of a 12-lane thoroughfare, known as Avenida Presidente Vargas. 
 
 Instead of taking the left lanes that were free of traffic, the car turned into the right lanes cluttered with buses and taxis, forcing the pontiff's car to stop, he said. 
 
 Thousands of faithful who lined the streets then rushed the car, reaching into the pope's open window, many taking photos of him with their phones. 
 
 The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, acknowledged that the pope's motorcade took a wrong turn but he said the pope was never concerned for his safety, even if his secretary who was sitting with him in the car was. 
 
 "His secretary was afraid, but the pope was happy, with his hand out the window waving," Lombardi said. 
 
 He minimized the concerns, saying the mob scenes were merely an expression of the "enthusiasm" of the crowds. 
 
 "There are no concerns for security. The concerns are that the enthusiasm is so great that it's difficult to respond to so much enthusiasm for the pope. But there is no fear and no concern," Lombardi told reporters. 
 
 The wrong turn taken by the pope's driver and ensuing mob scene didn't explain, however, the clear lack of security later as Francis rode in his open-air vehicle that was also surrounded by screaming faithful. 
 
 Lombardi acknowledge there might have been some "errors" that need correcting. 
 
 "This is something new, maybe also a lesson for the coming days," he said. 
 
 Oswaldo Chaves, a 40-year-old Catholic who saw the papal motorcade, dismissed concerns about the pontiff's security and how the scene might be viewed outside Brazil. 
 
 "That was only the happiness of the people, the affection of the people for the pope," he said. "Any criticism would be wickedness against Brazilians."
– Pope Francis is back on his home continent for the first time this week, and what a reception he got. He landed in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro yesterday for a week of World Youth Day festivities to boisterous crowds, and a somewhat confused driver. The AP reports that the Fiat he was riding in from the airport took a wrong turn, missing the lanes that had been cleared for him and driving into ones packed with buses and taxis, forcing the pontiff's car to stop—at which point it was promptly rushed by thousands of people, who reached into the car's open window and snapped photos. A Vatican rep says the pope wasn't worried, and assured anyone concerned about a perceived security breach that "there are no concerns for security." Apparently not, as the pope later rode in his open-air vehicle that was also surrounded by the screaming faithful. He apparently left his bulletproof popemobile in the Vatican garage so he could better connect with people. But it hasn't been all smooth sailing thus far. NBC News reports that a crude pipe bomb was found Sunday at a shrine he is set to visit, and about 1,500 protesters burned the governor in effigy last night outside Rio's Guanabara Palace, where Francis was meeting with the president. (Experts say the ire was focused on the government, not the pope, however.) But things may be calmer today: It's a planned day of rest for the pontiff.