Holy spirit: Pope’s bad knee ‘needs tequila’
DOCTORS have prescribed a wheelchair, cane and physical therapy to heal Pope Francis’s bad knee. He has other ideas.
According to a viral video of the pope at the end of a recent audience, Francis quipped that what he really needs for the pain is a shot of tequila.
Francis was riding in the Popemobile in St. Peter’s Square when he stopped near a group of Mexican seminarians from the Legion of Christ who asked him in his native Spanish how his knee was doing.
After he said it was ‘capricious’, they told him they admired his ability to smile despite the pain, and he was an example for future priests like themselves. ‘Do you know what I need for my knee?’ Francis asked. ‘Some tequila’.
The men laughed and promised to deliver a bottle to the Santa Marta hotel where Francis lives.
The 85-year-old Argentine pope has been suffering from strained ligaments in his right knee for months, and has had to use a wheelchair and cane to get around so he can let it heal.
Francis recently pulled out of a planned two-day trip to Lebanon next month, citing the knee problem, but the Vatican has confirmed he will travel to Congo and South Sudan, as well as Canada, in July.