Posted on 02/29/2020 11:01:45 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis cancelled official engagements for the third day in a row Saturday as he battled an apparent cold.
The 83-year-old pope, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has never cancelled so many official audiences or events in his seven-year papacy.
Francis is, however, continuing to work from his residence at the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel and is receiving people in private, the Vatican press office said. On Saturday, those private meetings were with the head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office, Francis’ ambassadors to Lebanon and France and a Ukrainian archbishop.
Cancelled were his two planned official audiences — formal affairs in the Apostolic Palace where Francis would have delivered a speech and greeted a great number of people at the end. Those were to include an audience with an international bioethics organization and with members of the scandal-marred Legion of Christ religious order.
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Always a bridesmaid and never a bride
“The bad ones, they never die.” - Pope Francis (as quoted by “Uncle Ted” McCarrick).
I hope the babies he kissed a few days ago are not sick.
Maybe later, Bro!
He’s been exposed to the Coronavirus as he went out there to those people, now he’s sick. He should be quaranteened. How many people has he himself infected now?
He kissed some babies after he was already getting sick.
“I just had to listen to Luigi. I just had to do what he told me to do. He said, ‘Holy papa! It’ll make you look more caring and sympathetic to your people. Go and hug those Coronavirus-infected people. It’ll look good on your resume!’”
If Francis dies then let’s hope the new Pope isn’t another Marxist. Would Benedict step in as the temporary pope?
Sick pope...in more ways than one.
Did he really go hug people sick with corona virus?
It's ok, babies do not seem to be getting coronavirus.
Now, kissing some cardinals might have been a mistake.
So sad he is ill, hope it is not the Cornavirus, opps CoVid19. He will have spread it around to many. If he has it and dies there will be another pope selected. Hopefully he is not a marxist. Why not Timothy Dolan from the USA.
Is it wrong to cheer for the death of evil people? Especially evil people that use and denigrate the name of God?
Have to wait for the black smoke from the Vatican
And you are infectious before the symptoms show up.
they will have tested him. So he is either really sick. Or contagious.
I don’t give much credence to these tests. Israeli Japan cruise ship guy was released as recovered..and now has the virus again.
“Up in Smoke”
Does this mean there will be white smoke if he passes?
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