Pope meeting with King Charles possible - Gambetti

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 18 - It is possible that Pope Francis will recover from the bilateral pneumonia he is being treated for in Rome's Gemelli hospital in time to meet King Charles III as planned during the British monarch's visit to the Vatican and Italy next month, a senior Vatican official said on Tuesday.
    "I have not seen the Holy Father. I have seen him in photographs, he is improving, I know he is improving," Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, the archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica and Vicar General for the Vatican State, said on the sidelines of an event for the foreign press.
    "'If it has been announced, I think it is one of the possibilities, I think that they will be able to do it," he added when asked about the scheduled audience on April 8.
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