Vatican City.- Pope Francis confessed to some Brazilian bishops that it does not cross his mind to resign as some media say and that he wants to live his mission “as long as God allows it,” according to Vatican media reports.
The Archbishop of Porto Velho, Roque Paloschi, assured the Vatican news portal that Francis told him “that he has many challenges, but that what appears in the press (in reference to his possible resignation) does not cross his mind.” , when the issue of his health was addressed during the meeting this Monday with the group of Brazilian bishops on an ‘ad limina’ visit, which must be carried out every five years to the Vatican.
“I want to live my mission as long as God allows me,” the pope said, according to Paloschi, while Lúcio Nicoletto, diocesan administrator of Roraima, added that they saw Francis with his “fragility” but “also with a very great strength.”
In this meeting of the 17 bishops of the North Region 1 (States of Amazonas and Roraima) and Northwest (Acre, southern Amazonas and Rondônia), Francis encouraged them to act “without fear of facing the challenges that the current moment presents us” and “to denounce everything that tramples on the fundamental rights of indigenous populations and the care of our common home.”
Francis was referring to the rumors published in some media about the possibility of a resignation due to his knee problems that momentarily force him to move in a wheelchair and the postponement of some trips such as the one planned in early July to Congo and Sudan. from the south.
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But in addition, a series of circumstances had fueled these speculations, such as an unprecedented consistory to appoint cardinals in August and a visit also that month to the city where Celestine V, the first pontiff to resign, is buried.
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