He Pope francesco On Wednesday he held the general audience, in which he read the appeals but not the catechisms, which he gave to a collaborator. “I still have a bit of a cold,” he had commented earlier go to hospital from Rome to undergo medical checks the flu that has been affecting him for a few days.
“After the general audience, Pope Francis went to the Gemelli Isola Tiberina hospital to undergo some diagnostic tests. Then he returned to the Vatican,” the Vatican confirmed.
Francis arrived at the center in the vehicle in which he usually travels and returned to the Vatican less than an hour later.
The pontiff had already gone on another occasion to the Tiber Island hospital, a branch of the Gemelli Polyclinic where the Popes are hospitalised, to undergo a computerized tomography (CT) scan when he was suffering from bronchitis.
He had previously held the general audience in the large Paul VI Hall – not in St. Peter’s Square – and announced that he still had the flu without fever. Even though he did not read the catechisms, he wanted to personally read the latest appeals from the public.
He also did not read his speech in the previous audience to the bishops of the Cilician Patriarchal Church of Armenians, after also apologizing for his persistent influence. The text was delivered to those present.
In the final appeals Francis read his speech aloud. He asked us to pray “for the victims of the recent attacks on places of worship in Burkina Faso”. He also explained that he prays for the people of Haiti where “crimes and kidnappings by armed gangs continue.”
The Pope stated loudly that March 1 will mark the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the landmine ban, and lamented that “it continues to affect innocent civilians, especially children, many years after the end of the hostility”.
The car with the Pope on board leaves the hospital. Photo: EFEThe Argentine pontiff expressed his closeness to the victims of these bombs “which remind us of the bitter cruelty of wars and the price paid by civilian populations”.
After a brief throat clearinghe thanked “all those who contribute to helping the victims and cleaning up contaminated areas” because “their work is a concrete response to the universal call to be architects of peace, taking care of our brothers and sisters”.
At the beginning of the general audience he said: “I still have a bit of a cold and that’s why I asked Monsignor Ciampanelli to read the catacheses”. Francis dedicated the catechesis of today’s audience to envy and vainglory.
The papal speech, read by a collaborator, states that “the face of the envious is always sad” and says that his “mind is wrapped in thoughts full of evil. Envy, if not controlled, leads to hatred towards the ‘other”.
Regarding vainglory, the Pope writes that it goes hand in hand with the demon of envy and together these two vices are typical of a person who aspires to be the center of the world, free to exploit everything and everyone, the object of all praise and Love. . . Vainglory is an inflated and unfounded self-esteem.”
Concern for Francisco’s health
In the Vatican there is moderate concern about the pope’s continuing respiratory problems.
On Friday, upon returning from the spiritual exercises of Lent, the Argentine pontiff had to cancel his audiences due to “a slight flu”.
Even on Saturday he did not hold the scheduled audience, but on Sunday he looked out of the window of his study on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace, celebrated the Angelus and transmitted his messages to the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
On Monday it was announced that the health problems continued, so all hearings that day were cancelled. There were no hearings or official information Tuesday.
Source: Clarin
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