Surgery imposes silence on Pope
‘Pope John Paul has spent a lifetime savouring the spoken word: as a young amateur actor, as a linguist with command of a dozen languages, and as pontiff, preaching in far-flung churches, airfields and stadiums. Now he is keeping silent on doctors’ orders.
A tracheotomy to ease a breathing problem has stilled his voice. For the first time in his 26-year pontificate, John Paul missed Sunday prayers, though he delighted many of the world’s one billion Roman Catholics with a surprise appearance from a hospital window.
The 84-year-old John Paul did not speak during his brief appearance at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic hospital, where he is being treated for his second breathing problem in less than a month.’
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