Pope's fatigue only to be expected says his doctor - Vatican. Vatican.
Pope Francis is an 87-year-old man whose periodic bouts of poor health and fatigue that have forced him to give up recent readings. "It is normal that he should go through periods of fatigue," said Sergio Alfieri, director of the surgery department at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, who has led abdominal surgery on Francis twice in the last three years. "I have no evidence of concerning situations," Alfieri went on.