ROME – On Advent Sunday Pope Francis gave his noontime Angelus address from his private residence rather than Saint Peter’s Square in order to avoid changing temperatures, as he continues treatment for what the Vatican has described as lung inflammation caused by bronchitis.
Speaking via a video connection from the Vatican’s Saint Martha guesthouse where he lives, the pope said, “Today I still cannot read everything. I am getting better, but my voice does not allow it.”
Last Sunday the pontiff also delivered the address via livestream, rather than from his usual post at the window of the papal apartment overlooking St. Peter’s Square, appearing on screen with an IV through which he was receiving antibiotics for what the Vatican had described as a “mild flu” causing lung inflammation.
