The Pope resigns at the last minute to preside over the Stations of the Cross to take care of his health during Holy Week. Francis, 87, has suffered some respiratory problems in recent times but yesterday he presided, apparently without problems, at the Holy Thursday mass in a women's prison in Rome.
This was also going to be Bergoglio's most personal via crucis since he had written in his own handwriting for the first time the "meditations", the texts that are read along the fourteen stations of the cross.