The harsh winter has already begun in Rome with low temperatures that forced the Pope Francisco to cancel the commitments set on the agenda due to a slight flu.
The Press Office of the Holy See He communicated it first thing in the morning to the accredited journalists, citing as the cause a “mild flu”.
Bergoglio will fulfill 87 years on December 17 and is planning an apostolic trip to dubai next week to speak at the XXVIII Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This Saturday’s break could be the best way for the Pontiff arrive with enough energy for next Friday’s departure.
At the moment there are no communications regarding his possible absence for the Angelus on Sunday in the St. Peter’s Square.
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Alberto Fernández canceled the trip to the Vatican
In this context of flu symptoms DadPresident Alberto Fernandez announced that he will not travel next week to Vatican to interview Franciscoas announced this week by the Pink House and had also been confirmed by the Holy See. The President will focus on the transition of Argentine government.
The meeting with the Argentine Pontiff will be rescheduled for after December 10.
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The trip to Dubai
The cancellation of this Saturday’s appointments due to the flu occurs almost a week before the Pope’s departure to Dubai scheduled for December 1st. Francisco will remain in the United Arab Emirates until the Sunday December 3just time to talk in Expo City on the occasion of the Cop28.
An apostolic journey that matters a lot to the Pontiff where on some occasion he revealed his disappointment for what was done at a global level against the climate change after the experience that he considered positive of COP21 celebrated in Paris in 2005. “After Paris everyone retreated and it takes courage to move forward in this”He said Dad on more than one occasion.
Bergoglio He also published in October a new apostolic exhortation on the environmental issuethe “Laudate Deum”which represents a kind of sequel to the encyclical “Laudato Si” written eight years ago and which announced to the then French Minister of Ecology in Parishe The socialist Ségolène Royal.
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Influence and diplomacy
The flu suffered by the Pope occurs three weeks after the occasion in which, also for health reasons mentioned above, Bergoglio He gave up giving the speech prepared for the audience to the delegation of European rabbis. “A little cold”explained the director of the Press Room, Matteo Bruni.
On that occasion, however, the Dad He had still attended the hearing and had not canceled the other commitments on the daily agenda, including the meeting with more than seven thousand children in the afternoon at the Paul VI Classroom.
In the context of the controversy over the alleged equidistance demonstrated by the Dad before him worsening of the Palestinian-Israeli crisisthere are those who have ventured the hypothesis of a “cold diplomat”.
In recent days, the decision of the Dad to receive a group of relatives of Israeli hostages retained by Hamas the same day as a hearing granted to relatives of Palestinians from Gaza detained in Israel had generated criticism from Council of the Assembly of Rabbis of Italywho in a note accused him of putting “innocents torn from their families at the same level as people often detained for very serious acts of terrorism”.
Source: Ambito
