“In view of the persistence of the current health emergency, this year it [was not] possible to experience the Spiritual Exercises of the Roman Curia in community at the Casa Divin Maestro in Ariccia,” according to a Vatican statement. The Pope invited members of the Curia “to make their own personal arrangements to withdraw in prayer, from the afternoon of Sunday 21 to Friday 26 February.” The Pope did not hold his Wednesday general audience during the week of the retreat.