The Vatican said Pope Francis will still attend the Passion celebration at St. Peter’s Basilica.
ROME — Pope Francis, hospitalized recently with bronchitis, skipped the traditional Good Friday nighttime procession at the Colosseum because of chilly weather in Rome, staying instead at his home at the Vatican while thousands of faithful turned out for the torchlit event.
The 86-year-old pope was discharged from a Rome hospital on April 1 after being administered antibiotics intravenously for bronchitis. Francis chose as the procession’s theme “voices of peace in a time of war.” Read aloud were accounts of suffering, of migrants and refugees from war, civil warfare or hunger, in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, South America and elsewhere.
Francis has repeatedly lamented the suffering of the Ukrainian people and issued many appeals for peace.
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