Pope Francis cancelled a planned religious service in a Roman basilica due to a slight ailment, the Vatican said on Thursday. “Due to a slight ailment, the pope preferred to stay in the vicinity of Santa Marta,“ his residence within the Vatican, spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement.
Pope Francis said he wants to be a servant of society’s neediest as he presided at a Holy Thursday Mass where an altar-server was a man convicted of multiple homicides. The Pontiff washed and kissed the feet of twelve men and women in a Roman prison housing many hardened criminals. For the third consecutive […]