Due to a painful sciatica, the pope will not celebrate the Te Deum prayer on Dec. 31, nor the Mass on Jan. 1. They will be celebrated by Card. Giovanni Battista Re and Card. Pietro Parolin, respectively.<\/p>\n
It isn't the first time Pope Francis suffers from this problem. When he returned from his first international trip, he jokingly confessed that the worst he had suffered as pope to that day was precisely this sort of pain.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS Nor is this the first time Pope Francis cancels an event for health reasons, though it has been a long time since a similar event. The most significant was the cancellation of a visit to Gemelli Hospital in 2014.<\/p>\n MSGR. CLAUDIO GIULIODORI Toward the end of February, the pope postponed some meetings due to a light cold. However, he never chose not to celebrate liturgical ceremonies like in this case.<\/p>\n The Holy See's statement makes no mention of the coronavirus. The distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in the Vatican could begin on Jan. 4, and the pope himself could be the first to receive it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Javier Romero December 31, 2020. This isn't the first time Pope Francis cancels a scheduled event because of health problems, though it has been a long time since he has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":45799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oZI1GkCejAA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapasciaticaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapasciaticaint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJuly 28, 2013<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe worst thing, sorry, that has happened was a sciatica. Really! I experienced this in my first month as pope because when I would give interviews, I would sit in an armchair that caused this problem. It's a very very painful sciatica. I wouldn't wish it upon anyone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nCatholic University of the Sacred Heart
\nJune 27, 2014<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Holy Father, due to a last-minute indisposition, will be unable to make the scheduled visit to Gemelli Hospital.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTranslation: CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"