Pope Francis was unable to deliver his complete speech due to a bout of bronchitis during his address to a group of French religious communications experts at the Vatican. The 87-year-old pontiff had previously suffered from an acute lung infection in November, which led to the cancellation of his planned trip to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. As a result, his aides had been reading his speeches for a few weeks. During the symposium “Universite des Communicants en Eglise” organized by the French Bishops’ Conference, Pope Francis had to interrupt his welcome message, stating, “I would like to read the speech, but there is a problem, I have a touch of bronchitis,” in a raspy voice. Although he had delivered other speeches earlier that day, the Pope refrained from reading his speech to members of a Catholic scientific body in a later engagement, with the Vatican providing them with a written version instead.
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Pope Francis unable to finish speech due to bronchitis.
