Pope Francis said that his advancing age and his difficulty walking have ushered in a new, slower phase of his papacy and repeated that he would be ready to resign one day if serious health problems prohibited him from running the Church. | Reuters
“I think that at my age and with this limitation I have to preserve myself a bit in order to be able to serve the Church, or decide to step aside,” Francis said.
Francis said he preferred not to have an operation on his knee because he did not want a repeat of long-term negative side effects from anesthesia he suffered after an intestinal operation a year ago. He indicated that he would first make trips to places he had already promised to go, such as South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, and perhaps Kazakhstan before deciding on future trips.In an interview with Reuters this month, Francis said he had no intention of resigning soon.He has often said that he could follow in the footsteps of Pope Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pope in 600 years to resign instead of rule for life.
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