Rome, 18 Feb. (LaPresse) – ‘The night passed peacefully, the Pope rested, had breakfast and dedicated his time to reading some newspapers’. This was announced to journalists by the director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni. A further bulletin will be issued in the late afternoon.
‘Due to the Holy Father's poor health, the Jubilee Audience scheduled for Saturday 22 February has been cancelled’, the Holy See Press Office also announced, specifying that ’Pope Francis has delegated H.E. Mons. Rino Fisichella, Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Section for Fundamental Questions of Evangelisation in the World’.