Argentinian Cardinal Leonardo Sandri will substitute Pope Francis in the celebration of Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter’s Square due to the pontiff’s ill health, the Vatican has announced.
ROME — that he had been informed last Monday that he would celebrate Palm Sunday Mass, which kicks off the Holy Week celebrations that will culminate with Easter Sunday.
“Yes, of course, I can confirm that I will celebrate the Mass of the Palms on Sunday,” Sandri said. “I was warned already last Monday by the Master of Papal Ceremonies that the Holy Week liturgies would each be celebrated by a cardinal, and they asked me for Palm Sunday.” The Vatican reportedly still hopes that Pope Francis will be well enough to preside over the Easter Mass, which will be officiated by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, and that the pope will be able to impart theA reporter speaks in front her smartphone set for a stand-up outside of the Policlinico Gemelli hospital, where Pope Francis has been hospitalized on Wednesday 29 due to a respiratory infection, in Rome, Italy, on March 30, 2023. anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II.
Just weeks ago, Pope Francis celebrated his tenth anniversary as pope to mixed reviews. In 2013 he was elected as the first pontiff from Latin America and the first from the Jesuit order founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola.
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