A long silence from the Pope at the Palm Sunday mass revives rumors about his health in the middle of Easter. Francis did not deliver the homily during the ceremony at the Vatican.

For the first time he did not ask any collaborator to do it, as has happened several times in recent weeks. The Vatican did not explain the Pope's silence. He simply clarified to the Vaticanists that since it had not been delivered, the Homily was “non-existent” The Pope had a new total body CT scan a month after the previous one, on November 25.