2023-09-18 10:00:00
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THE POWER OF THE POPE (1/4). Almost 87 years old and although weakened, the head of the Catholic Church is reforming and continues to speak to the world. Reporting.
By Jérôme Cordelier, special envoy to Rome Pope Francis addressing the crowd during his weekly Wednesday general audience on the square of St. Peter’s Square in Rome. © VATICAN MEDIA / CPP / HANS LUCAS / VATICAN MEDIA/Hans Lucas via AFP Published on 09/18/2023 at 10:00 a.m.
Under the Roman dodger, the crowds flock to Saint-Pierre Square. It is like this almost every Wednesday on this square – or in the vast Paul VI room, when the weather does not permit – for the weekly general audience of Pope Francis. This will also be the case during the visit on September 22 and 23 of the head of the Catholic Church to Marseille, for a high mass in the Vélodrome stadium and the passage of the “popemobile” on the Prado.
This pope, almost 87 years old – he will be on December 17, 1936 -, handicapped by pain which makes him suffer – in the lung (he is missing a lobe), in the hip and in the knee – and which now forces him to moving in a wheelchair, at the head of a Church undermined by scandals, moves the crowds. “I see no sign of the end of pontificating…
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