The 90-minute interview with Reuters took place on July 2 in the Vatican’s Santa Marta guesthouse, where Pope Francis lives. He frequently holds meetings in a reception room on the building’s ground floor.
According to Reuters, the pope arrived for the interview using a cane.
He joked, “I’m still alive!” when asked how he was doing. He also explained that he had suffered “a small fracture” in his right knee after stepping wrongly with an inflamed ligament.
The fracture is healing, he said, with the help of laser and magnet therapy. “I am well, I am slowly getting better.”
Pope Francis expressed regret that, due to the knee injury, he had to cancel a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, scheduled for July 2-7, saying the decision caused him “much suffering.”
The decision came after doctors said he needs 20 more days of therapy and rest for his knee before he travels to Canada July 24-30.
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