In an interview published Monday, Pope Francis said that he plans to resign in the near future and that he might go to Moscow and Kyiv.
Rumors that Pope Francis was going to retire were not true.
Pope Francis said he has no plans to step down and dismissed rumors about his health as court gossip.
Reports that doctors found cancer during colon surgery, a knee problem that scuttled a trip to Africa, and rumors that the pope was planning to resign are all coincidences, he said.
He said that if doctors found cancer, they wouldn't tell him anything and that he was still recovering from a knee injury.
Francis said he is going to visit Canada later this month and hopes to go to other countries to help.
During the war, papal overtures to Moscow did not pan out.
There is a chance that a trip to Russia is now possible.
The Supreme Court's decision to limit the right to abortion across the U.S. in June was not commented on by Pope Francis. The Catholic Church doesn't accept abortion as murder. Francis wanted to know if it was right to eliminate a human life to solve a problem.
The pope criticized catholic clerics who deny politicians holy communion. The pope said that when a bishop loses his pastoral nature it can cause a political problem. He wouldn't say anything else on the matter.
The pope has been criticized for his slow and timid response to the war in Ukranian. He has sought a meeting with the Russian leader multiple times and has rarely criticized Russia or Putin. The pontiff condemned the brutality of Russian troops but insisted the matter was not clear cut and that Moscow may have been provoked by NATO expansion.
The Pope is not planning to step down soon.
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