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   From: bksharman@aol.com   
      
   Pope Francis has come down with a “slight indisposition,”   
   forcing him to cancel a planned Mass in Rome, just a day after   
   he expressed his solidarity with coronavirus sufferers around   
   the world — and as the disease continues to spread across Italy.   
      
   The illness has forced the 82-year-old pontiff to nix a   
   penitential Mass, marking the start of Lent, that he’d planned   
   to celebrate at the St. John Lateran basilica across town with   
   Roman clergy, the Vatican said.   
      
   Francis will proceed with the rest of his planned work Thursday,   
   but “preferred to stay near Santa Marta,” the Vatican hotel   
   where he lives, officials said.   
      
   The Vatican has not specified the nature of the pope’s illness,   
   but he was seen coughing and blowing his nose during Ash   
   Wednesday Mass.   
      
   Meanwhile, 400 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in   
   Italy, and 12 people have died. Most of the cases have been   
   reported in northern Italy.   
      
   Three cases were reported in Rome, but each person has already   
   recovered.   
      
   During a General Audience in St. Peter’s Square on Ash   
   Wednesday, the pope expressed his support for coronavirus   
   sufferers.   
      
   “I wish, again, to express my closeness to those who are ill   
   with coronavirus and to health care workers who are caring for   
   them,” he said, according to Vatican News.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/02/27/pope-francis-sick-a-day-after-   
   supporting-coronavirus-sufferers/   
        
      
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