I have no plans to resign, says Pope Francis in new autobiography Pontiff says Church ‘governed using the head and the heart, not the legs’ as he discusses health problems in autobiography.
Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month and asked an aide to read a major speech last week due to a cold, says in a new book that he feels healthy and has no plans to resign as leader of the global Catholic Church.
“Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing,” Francis states in the book, referring to the secret meeting of Catholic cardinals that will one day elect the next pontiff.
The pope, who now often uses a wheelchair due to knee and back pain, says: “The Church is governed using the head and the heart, not the legs.”.
The new volume, titled “Hope”, is the second of two books in two years by the pope, following a memoir released in March 2024.
