The tenth anniversary of the election of Pope Francis is approaching: it will be March 13 but no celebration in grand style is planned in the Vatican.
The only time to remember the event will be mass, at 8 in the morning and in the chapel of Santa Marta, in which he invited the cardinals who live in Rome to take part.
But in the meantime analyzes and interviews continue to take stock of these ten years of pontificate.
And the Pope in an interview with Swiss Radio, relaunched among others by the Verona Arena, reiterated that he is not thinking of his resignation, but "a weariness that does not make you see things clearly, the lack of clarity, of knowing how to evaluate the situations" would push him to give them, and "even the physical problem, maybe".
But at the moment the physical problems,
starting with the one in the knee, they seem to improve.
The Pope was seen less in a wheelchair.
And if he publicly moves on foot with the use of a stick, within the Vatican walls he would make use of a walker these days that helps him practice walking on foot.
The Pope, in another interview, the one with the Argentinian Infobae, returns to delicate issues in the internal debate of the Catholic Church, from gays ("today a lot of magnifying glass is being put on this problem. I think we have to go to the essentials of the Gospel: Jesus calls everyone") to the celibacy of priests.
Abolishing it, argues the Pontiff, would not serve to increase the number of vocations.
But it opens a window: "celibacy in the Western Church is a temporary prescription: I don't know if it resolves itself in one way or another, but it is provisional in this sense; it is not eternal like priestly ordination, which is forever, whether you like it or not."
Openings that arrive just as the assembly of the German Synodal Path is being held in Frankfurt where a new tear with the Church of Rome is allegedly taking place.
The German synod voted by a very large majority both for the green light for blessings for homosexual couples (92%) and for a text that heralds the request to the Pope to reconsider the question of celibacy (95%).
In the first case it would be a decision against the indications that had arrived from the Vatican in the meeting with the German bishops in Rome.
Between tonight and tomorrow morning another crucial issue in the debate within the Church will be voted on: that of the admission of women to the priesthood.
Msgr.
Stefano Russo, former secretary general of the CEI, for whom "the greatest challenge of the Synod is not to let oneself be dragged by 'partisan visions' which divide".
On the sidelines of the work in Frankfurt, a theatrical exhibition was also held on the issue of abuse which aroused debate and controversy and was defined by some as "satanic".
Meanwhile, the American Jesuit father James Martin believes that the most surprising gesture of Francis' ten-year papacy was precisely "his approach to LGBT people, an immense blessing not only for that community,
Returning to the Pope, he returned to the war in Ukraine: "There - he said - there are imperial interests, not only those of the Russian Empire".
He confided to Infobae that he would like to go to Argentina.
"I want to go to Argentina, I want to. But...", he says, leaving the possible moment of this trip hanging.
With the Latin American journalist he speaks in no uncertain terms about the situation in Nicaragua.
"One can only think of an imbalance of the person - he says referring to Daniel Ortega -. There, we have an imprisoned bishop, a serious, very capable man. He wanted to give his testimony and did not accept exile" .
In Nicaragua it is as if one wanted to "bring back the communist dictatorship of 1917 or the Hitler dictatorship of 1935".