He also said that no definitive plans for Holy Week and Easter have yet been decided, but expects that cardinals could be tapped to preside over liturgical celebrations in the pope’s place.
Speaking to journalists on the margins of a recent event in Sacrofano, Parolin said that after his March 23 return from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, the pope “rests, he doesn’t see anyone, and, to my knowledge, he does not have audiences and he does not receive people.”
“What is important is that he finds time to recover, little by little,” Parolin said.
Pope Francis spent 38 days in the hospital, after being admitted Feb. 14 for treatment of a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia.
The doctor leading his medical team at Gemelli Hospital, surgeon Sergio Alfieri, in a recent interview with an Italian newspaper called the pope’s recovery “miraculous,” saying the pontiff had two close brushes with death during his hospital stay and credited his recovery in part to prayer.
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