The announcement comes two months after the Pope was hospitalized for three days in Rome, at the end of March, due to pneumonia that he overcame thanks to a treatment based on antibiotics.
The Pontiff expressed in an interview with Telemundo that the pneumonia was “treated in time”, and that if they had waited a few more hours, the situation could have been “more serious”.
As for his knee pain, which forces him to move in a wheelchair or with the help of a cane, he said he felt “much better.”
Questioned about his health problems at the end of April, upon returning from a trip to Hungary, the top leader of the Catholic Church expressed his willingness to continue traveling.
From August 2 to 6, he plans to attend the World Youth Days in Lisbon, and then travel to Marseille, France, in September, and later to Mongolia.