Pope Francis's knee hurts, "I have a problem"

Al Pope The knee still hurts, which for about ten days has made his walking more limp than usual.

It is the same to reveal it Pontiff, chatting with the policemen he received today, Thursday 3 February, in Vatican.

Already on January 26, at the end of the general audience, Bergoglio thus addressed the faithful present in thePaul VI hall: “I allow myself to explain to you that today I will not be able to come among you to greet you, because I have a problem with my right leg; there is an inflamed ligament in the knee. But I will go down and greet you there and you come by to greet me. It is a passing thing. They say that this only comes to the old, and I don't know why it came to me… ”.

Today the Pope received the leaders and staff of the Public Security Inspectorate at the Vatican in the Apostolic Palace, for a traditional audience at the beginning of the year.

“I - he said at the end of the meeting - will try to greet you all standing up, but this knee does not always allow me. I ask you not to be offended if at some point I have to say goodbye while sitting ".

Francesco also addressed a thought full of gratitude to the policemen who lost their lives in facing the Covid-19 pandemic. “I would not like to end without a memory of those of you who gave your life in service, even in this pandemic: thank you for your testimony. They went into silence, into work. May their memory always come with gratitude, ”she said at the end of the hearing.