ROME – After taking several days off due to what the Vatican described as a mild flu, Pope Francis on 28 February resumed his normal schedule, though an aide read his remarks during a public address, after which the Pope underwent tests at a hospital in Rome.
Speaking to attendees of his general audience, Pope Francis said “I am still a bit sick, and because of this I have asked Monsignor Ciampanelli to read the catechesis”.
Ciampanelli, an official of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, read the Pope’s speech, but Francis delivered the traditional greetings to different language groups himself.
