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by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | lead, Media, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Papal health, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II | 0 |
Executives from TV networks are finalizing contracts for locations and personnel for the “big show,” and journalists are dusting off papal obituaries and handicapping lists of papal candidates.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Canada, lead, News, Papal health, Papal travel, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis told reporters on his return flight from Canada that he will likely have to slow down due to his ongoing knee pain, however, his busy fall schedule doesn’t appear to include much room for down time.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 4, 2022 | Abortion, Communion, lead, Nancy Pelosi, News, Papal health, papal interview, Pope Francis, Roe v. Wade, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
In a new wide-ranging interview with Reuters, Pope Francis addressed several hot-button topics, including his health and resignation rumors, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and the recent overturning of Roe v Wade in the United States.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Corpus Christi, News, Papal health, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis canceled his participation in a religious procession this weekend due to ongoing knee pain, but said Monday he hoped to celebrate a special Mass for Italy’s Congolese community after he had to postpone his planned visit to Africa.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2022 | Cardinals, Consistory, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal health, papal resignation | 0 |
While the Vatican has said repeatedly that the pontiff’s issues are due to osteoarthritis in the right knee, and that he’s otherwise fine, those assurances have done little to prevent the ever-active Roman rumor mill from going into overdrive.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Congo, lead, News, Papal health, Papal travel, Pope Francis, South Sudan, Vatican | 0 |
On Friday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis’s planned trip to the Congo and South Sudan in July has been put on hold due his knee problems, marking the first time the pope has postponed a trip for health reasons.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Associated Press, lead, Mexico, News, Papal health, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Doctors have prescribed a wheelchair, cane and physical therapy to help heal Pope Francis’ bad knee. He has other ideas.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2022 | lead, Lebanon, News, Papal health, Papal travel, Pope Francis, South Sudan, Vatican | 0 |
Monday’s announcement that Pope Francis’s visit to Lebanon next month has been postponed due to his health has cast down on his other ambitious travel plans this summer.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 6, 2022 | Benedict XVI, John Paul II, lead, News, Papal health, Pope Francis, UISG, Vatican, Women religious | 0 |
For the first time, Pope Francis Thursday was seen in public being transported in a wheelchair to an audience with the leaders of women’s religious communities, which the Vatican ascribed to his recent difficulties with knee pain.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2022 | Catholic News Service, News, Papal health, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis will have therapeutic injections to try to alleviate the pain in his right knee, he told an Italian newspaper.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 22, 2022 | Associated Press, lead, News, Papal health, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis cleared his schedule Friday to undergo medical checks on his right knee, as his strained ligaments have made walking, standing and getting up from his chair increasingly difficult and painful.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | ash wednesday, Florence, lead, Mediterranean, News, Papal health, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
On Friday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has cancelled his daytrip to Florence this weekend and will be unable to celebrate next week’s Ash Wednesday Mass due to an “acute knee pain.”
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