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Pope Francis says he has acute bronchitis, will avoid traveling

By AP staff
Associated Press
Religion
Published November 30, 2023 2:37 PM MST
Published November 30, 2023 2:37 PM MST
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FILE - Pope Francis, seated in a wheelchair following knee treatment, presides over "The Cortile dei Bambini" (The Children's Courtyard) encounter with children coming from all over Italy, on June 4, 2022 at San Damaso courtyard in The Vatican. (TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

ROME - Pope Francis said on Thursday that he is suffering from acute, infectious bronchitis and that doctors recommended he cancel his planned visit to Dubai this weekend to avoid the quick changes in temperature that would be involved.

"As you can see, I’m alive," Francis quipped at the start of an audience with participants of a symposium on health care ethics.

It was one of nine audiences Francis had scheduled for Thursday, suggesting he was still managing to carry a heavy workload despite his illness.

Francis, who turns 87 in a few weeks and had part of one lung removed as a young man, came down with the flu last week and is on antibiotics. On Tuesday, the Vatican announced he was cancelling his planned participation in the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders.

"The reason is that it’s very hot there, and you go from heat to air conditioning," Francis told the health care workers. "Thank God it wasn’t pneumonia. It’s a very acute, infectious bronchitis."

Previously the Vatican had said Francis was suffering from a lung inflammation and the flu. Francis had a previous case of acute bronchitis in the spring, when he was hospitalized for three days at Rome's Gemelli hospital so he could receive intravenous antibiotics.

The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said Thursday the Holy See was still trying to figure out how it would be represented at Dubai, where the U.N. climate conference, or COP 28, is underway. Parolin, the secretary of state, recalled that he had represented the Vatican at past U.N. climate conferences and could do the same in Dubai.

Francis was supposed to have left Rome on Friday, spoken at the conference Saturday, presided over the inauguration of a faith pavilion on the sidelines of the meeting Sunday and then returned to Rome. Parolin said doctors recommended against the trip "to avoid any deterioration (in his condition) and so he can recover as soon as possible."

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