“He governs his head, not with the knee”
The Pope or continues to rule the Catholic Church, although from the tenth plant of the Rome Gemelli Hospital. It is the fourth time that he enters this apartment mounted in the hospital by John Paul II, who, given his frequent income, baptized as ‘Vatican 3’after the palace of Castelgandolfo.
In these twelve years of pontificate, which will be fulfilled on March 13, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was removed a part of the colon and was operated from an abdominal hernia, but also passed through the GEMELLI by the bronchitis that assails him every winter. Last night it has been “calm”, in the morning he has breakfast and read some newspapers, but although he must keep “Absolute rest”also receives its secretaries to continue reviewing documents.
Before the disease, he has made clear his intention not to give up the first change. “He governs his head, not with the knee”he summarized, in his style, following problems that have forced him to use a wheelchair. Without going any further, yesterday he signed the exit of the Canadian bishop of Baie-Comeau, Jean-Pierre Blais, accused of sexual abuse.