Pope Francis, who will be 85 years old in December, maybe, according to the example of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, renounce the Apostolic Throne, reports the Italian newspaper Libero.
According to information, the cause of a possible decision of the Francis Pope The publication calls the state of health of the defdency, which the intestine surgery was conducted on July 4 in Rome.
“in the Vatican more and more persistently talk about the new conclusion. According to these statements, Pope Francis expressed the intention to leave. In the future, December, by the way, he will be 85 years old, as much as Benedict XVI was at the time of renunciation, – writes Libero. – However, the reason for the renunciation of Bergolo would be not so much age as the state of health, which turned out to be in the center of universal attention to an unexpected and unforeseen way due to the surgical operation. “
Operation Dad Francis was made on July 4 in the Roman Hospital “Agostino Dzhemelli”. According to the holy throne, the pontiff was held “a planned operation about the diverticular disease of the sigmoid colon”. Later, the official representative of the Vatican clarified that the operation lasted for about three hours and demanded “left-sided hemicultomy”, that is, resection of the left side of the large intestine. Pope spent ten days in the hospital and returned to the Vatican on July 14.
Pope Benedict XVI At the consistory on February 11, 2013, unexpectedly announced his decision to renounce the apostolic throne. On the evening of February 28, this decision entered into legal force. Currently, Pope at rest lives in a small monastery Mater Ecclesiae in the Vatican.