Pope jokes of tequila

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has quipped that a shot of tequila would help him with a painful knee that has forced the 85-year-old Argentinian to use a wheelchair.

“You know what I need for my leg? A little tequila!” Francis joked with a group of Mexican priests in a video posted on TikTok that went viral yesterday. The pontiff was doing the rounds in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican in his pope-mobile after the general audience recently when he stopped to say hello to the group of newly-ordained priests, one of whom asked him about his knee.

“Very capricious,” replies a smiling Francis, who has had to cancel some audiences. |