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Pope Francis, affected by a “painful sciatica”, could not preside over the liturgical celebrations scheduled for the end of the year, on December 31 and January 1.
Pope Francis received a group of members of a court of the Holy See sitting on Friday, due to the sciatica he suffers and that prevented him from delivering his speech standing up. “I should speak to them standing up, but they know sciatica is a bit of a bothersome host. I apologize, I will speak sitting down, “said the pontiff before delivering a speech to the members of the Sagrada Rota, the court in charge of the annulment of ecclesiastical marriages.
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It was a traditional meeting that is organized in January on the occasion of the inauguration of the judicial year.
The 84-year-old pontiff postponed several scheduled engagements a week ago, including the annual meeting with the diplomatic corps. Due to his health problem, he also resigned to preside over Sunday mass. Francisco, affected by a “painful sciatica”, was not able to preside over the liturgical celebrations scheduled for the end of the year, on December 31 and January 1.
The Argentine pope wears special shoes due to that sciatic nerve injury that has afflicted him for several years. On the plane back in 2013 from his first trip abroad, the Argentine pope confessed to journalists that sciatica had marked his first month of pontificate.
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“Worst? I had sciatica, I had it the first month. Because to do the interviews they made me sit in an armchair, and that hurt me. It is a very painful sciatica, very painful. I don’t wish it on anyone, ”he confessed to the journalists who accompanied him back from Brazil.
The Argentine pope has already received the first dose of the vaccine against covid-19. Francisco is considered a person at risk since when he was 21 years old, in 1957, he suffered acute pleurisy and surgeons had to partially remove his right lung.
