Pope Francis denies to step down soon

• Pope Francis says he will visit Canada this month as scheduled.
• He laughed off rumors that he had cancer, saying that doctors didn’t tell him anything about it.
• He reiterated his frequently expressed view that his health should deteriorate to the point that it would be difficult for him to lead the Church.

Pope Francis denied rumors that he may step down soon. He stated that he will visit Canada this month as scheduled and wishes to visit Moscow and Kyiv as soon as possible after that.

Francis also laughed off rumors that he had cancer, saying that doctors didn’t tell him anything about it.

For the first time described the knee issue that has hindered him from doing some tasks in an exclusive interview with Reuters at his Vatican apartment.

Pope Celestine V resigned from the papacy in 1294. It is related to L’Aquila.

Francis, though, laughed the concept off throughout the conversation as he discussed a wide range of global and church-related topics.

Some people believed that the same ‘liturgy’ would take place as a result of all these coincidences, he claimed.

Francis however reiterate his frequently expressed view that his health should deteriorate to the point that it would be difficult for him to lead the Church.

He might resign one day. Something that prior to Benedict XVI, had been all but unimaginable.

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Francis denied claims that a malignancy had been discovered after he had a six-hour operation to remove a portion of his colon last year due to diverticulitis.

For instance, the conservative archbishop of Nancy Pelosi’s home diocese of San Francisco forbade her from taking communion there. But she frequently partakes in it at a parish in Washington, D.C.

She received the sacrament during a papal Mass last week in the Vatican.