PARIS, ARGENTINA, CLERGY ABUSE
The pope additionally firmly denied a French media report that he would go to Paris in December for the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral. Francis mentioned: “I cannot go to Paris.”
A small French outlet had reported the pope would go for the cathedral’s deliberate Dec 8 reopening ceremony, 5 years after a devastating hearth.
The pontiff additionally mentioned on Friday he was nonetheless contemplating whether or not to journey this 12 months to Argentina, his dwelling nation.
“I want to go,” mentioned Francis, who’s the primary pope from the Americas and earlier than turning into pontiff served because the archbishop of Buenos Aires. “However it’s not but determined. There are some issues to resolve first.”
The pope mentioned that if he did go to Argentina, he want to make a cease on the best way from Rome within the Canary Islands, an autonomous Spanish territory off the coast of northwestern Africa.
It has grow to be an more and more standard vacation spot for migrants braving an Atlantic crossing to attempt to attain Europe.