Pope Francis has no intention of resigning as he feels that his health is good enough to allow him to carry on.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has no intention of resigning as he feels that his health is good enough to allow him to carry on, he says in a new book whose excerpts were published by Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper on Thursday.
Francis is 87 and has been increasingly frail in recent years, using a wheelchair or a cane to move around and recently suffering from what have been described as bouts of bronchitis or colds that have led him to limit his public speaking.Nevertheless, in the book he reassures about his condition.
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