ROME – Just hours after a Vatican news conference confirming Pope Francis’s trip to Dubai this weekend for a United Nations climate summit, the Vatican announced Tuesday that it has been cancelled upon medical advice due to an ongoing infection causing lung inflammation.
A Vatican spokesman announced, however, that Pope Francis will lead his Wednesday General Audience, though it wasn’t immediately clear whether he would do so from St. Peter’s Square as usual or via livestream from indoors as he conducted last Sunday’s Angelus address.
