The pontiff is getting ready to ride off into the sunset. According to Pope Francis, who is aging and suffers from a bad knee, is reportedly considering retiring now that he has returned from his trip abroad to Canada.
“I don’t think I can keep traveling with the same rhythm I used to at my age and with the limitation of this knee,” Pope Francis said to journalists during his return from Canada.
It is not a catastrophe to change Pope, it is not a taboo,” Francis told journalists on a flight to Rome the BBC reported.
“The door [to retiring] is open – it is a normal option, ” he added, reported the BBC. “But until today I have not knocked on that door,”
“I have not felt the need to think about this possibility – that is not to say that in two days’ time I might not start thinking about it.”