papacy

The Argentine pontiff has not been seen in public since entering the hospital, his longest stretch away from the public eye since his papacy began 12 years ago.

“The papacy is a huge burden. Especially for an older man,” Adeyemi replies, cutting his eyes at Tremblay, no spring chicken, in a particular way.

This has been the longest foreign visit of his papacy and given his frail health, volunteers say the visit was unimaginable just a year ago.

Now, he is in the middle of the longest foreign visit of his 11-and-a-half year papacy.

The 87-year-old had earlier on Tuesday kicked off a 11-day visit to the region, the longest foreign trip of his papacy.