Pope Francis, at the general audience in the Paul VI Hall, entrusted the reading of the prepared text to one of his collaborators, Monsignor Filippo Ciampanelli.
"I still have a bit of a cold, which is why I asked Monsignor Ciampanelli to read today's catechesis", began the Pope. Even in the previous audience, the one with the Armenian Church, he had not read the prepared text but had entrusted it to his collaborator .
However, Francis wanted to read in person, with a voice that was still effectively feeble, the final appeals for peace and to remember the ban on anti-personnel mines.
The Pope arrived in the Paul VI Hall not on foot with the aid of a cane, as had been seen in recent times, but in a wheelchair accompanied by an assistant.
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