Posted on 07/30/2022 4:48:17 AM PDT by FarCenter
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, July 30 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Saturday that his advancing age and his difficulty walking have ushered in a new, slower phase of his papacy and repeated that he would be ready to resign one day if serious health problems prohibited him from running the Church.
"I don't think I can continue doing trips with the same rhythm as before," he said in answers to reporters' questions aboard the plane returning to Rome from a week-long trip in Canada. read more
For the past few months Francis, 85, has been using a wheelchair, a cane or a walker because of knee pain caused by a fracture and inflamed ligament.
He walked with a cane to the rear cabin where reporters travel, but sat in a wheelchair for the traditional, 45-minute post-trip news conference, the first time he has done so on his 37 international trips since he was elected as pope in 2013.
"I think that at my age and with this limitation I have to preserve myself a bit in order to be able to serve the Church, or decide to step aside," Francis said.
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Step aside, commie pope.
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Just die already.
Time for a non-partisan Pope.
Retire and take your ill gotten millions, Charlatan
The GTHO of sight and sound
He does this for the attention, I am convinced. Next week, the pope will again say he has no intention of resigning in the foreseeable future.
Time for a Catholic Pope.
Get ready to meet your Maker, Commie-Fag.
“Pope says that with frailty and age, he is in new phase of papacy”
correction:
Pope says that with frailty and age, he is in new phase of satanism.
He needs to lie down for a permanent dirt nap.
it would be funny and ironic if this pope died before the previous one who is still alive but retired does!
worst not really pope in history.
Is the Pope Catholic? This question used to bring an immediate ‘yes’ response. Now? Not so much.
It’s going to be funny if Benedict outlives the ImPopester.
Just like Odumbo,who probably haloed put him where he is, this pope has damaged Christendom and has put people in place to continue the destruction.
The true Catholic faithful better put the pieces back together from once we came, or we continue down a path to a VERY different Catholicism, (which I will not be a party to)!
This!!
His Papacy is on a phase of further destruction of the Church to Presbyterianism.
Hospice?
Yeah, but that's nothing compared to when he decided to not be Catholic anymore.
I hope that Antipope Bergolio’s fetid, diseased colon explodes.
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