Pope Francis, 86, canceled his morning appointments today because he had a fever, the Vatican said, amid regular concern for the health of the head of the Catholic Church.
“Due to a feverish state, Pope Francis did not receive an audience this morning,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said, without specifying the Argentine pope’s agenda for the morning.
This announcement comes two months after Jorge Bergoglio was hospitalized for three days in Rome at the end of March due to pneumonia, from which he recovered with the help of antibiotics.
In an interview on Thursday with the Spanish-language television station Telemundo, the Pope said that this pneumonia was treated “on time.”
“If we had waited a few more hours, it would have been much more serious,” he said.
As for the pain he suffers in one knee, which forces him to move in a wheelchair or with the help of a cane, he declared that he felt “much better”.
“Some days are more painful than others, like today, but that’s part of recovery,” he said.
Asked about his health at the end of April, upon returning from a visit to Hungary, Francis expressed his intention to continue traveling: he must travel to Lisbon from August 2 to 6 for World Youth Day (WYD) and then to Marseille in September. as well as Mongolia.
As a young man, at the age of 21, Jorge Bergoglio suffered from acute pleurisy (inflammation of the membrane that surrounds the lungs) and surgeons had to partially remove his right lung.
The health of the current Pope, elected in 2013, regularly fuels speculation about the eventuality of his resignation and succession.
Source: TSF
