Pope Francis says he'll slow down or retire: 'You can change a pope'

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Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that he can no longer travel like he used to because of his strained knee ligaments, saying his weeklong Canadian pilgrimage was 'a bit of a test' that showed he needs to slow down and one day possibly retire.

Francis was peppered with questions about the future of his pontificate following the first trip in which he used a wheelchair, walker and cane to get around, sharply limiting his program and ability to mingle with crowds.

The Canada trip was difficult, and featured several moments when Francis was clearly in pain as he maneuvered getting up and down from chairs. Francis ruled out having surgery on his knee, saying it would not necessarily help and noting "there are still traces" from the effects of having undergone more than six hours of anesthesia in July 2021 to remove 33 centimetres of his large intestine.

"It's true I didn't use the word because it didn't come to mind, but I described genocide, no?" Francis said. "I apologized, I asked forgiveness for this work, which was genocide."

 

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Where are masks? Canadian journalists preach nonsense about masks in airplanes . Apparently, this doesn't apply to everyone.

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I liked it back when the pope worked until they died.

Let’s hope the Vatican doesn’t have their own group of saboteurs. Seems like every country has at least one nowadays

Just quit the cult like millions of others worldwide are doing every single year. You can claim age but the cite ' disgust.'

Popes are not supposed to quit, that's not normal.

Isn't that the reason he got this job?

The Pope is pooped.

No masks?

He's a fraud.

When is Jesus going to replace the pope? Like it's been only a few thousand year thr mf hasn't shown up once since he was killed. Slackness

Popes are as useful as 💩 on a stick .

The media and victimhood groups treated him like crap. His apologies weren't good enough. I'm not sure what is. Lesson learned.

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