ROME – Despite cancelling his scheduled meetings and audiences Monday due to a “mild flu-like condition,” Pope Francis is still expected to travel to Luxembourg and Belgium this week as planned.
In a Sept. 23 statement, the Vatican announced that “due to a mild case of influenza, and as a precaution the trip in the coming days, the papal audiences scheduled for today are cancelled.”
However, on the same day, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni held a news briefing on the pope’s Sept. 26-29 visit to Luxembourg and Belgium, giving no indication that the trip was at risk…