It is traditional for the pope to give a press conference on the plane after returning from his travels.
A dozen questions are asked by the 70 international journalists accompanying him.
The duration of the interview varies according to the flight time, from about ten minutes to more than an hour.
On his return from Canada, on the night of Friday to last Saturday, the question of the resignation was posed directly to the pope, twice.
A forty-five-second television clip, widely broadcast in France but cutting off the quote, gave the impression that the pope was announcing an imminent resignation.
But François, 85, said precisely that this was not on the agenda.
As he has always maintained since 2013 and as he repeated twice in the spring of 2022. The Anglo-Saxon and Italian press, which did not insist on the subject, did not cheated this weekend.
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