Pope doing well, has to relearn to speak - cardinal

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 21 - Pope Francis is doing well as he battles pneumonia in a Rome hospital but has to relearn how to speak, a fellow Argentine cardinal said Friday.
    Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said that Francis's return for Easter "depends on the doctors".
    "The Pope is doing very well but the high-flow oxygen dries everything out. He has to learn to speak again but his body is as it was before." When asked if he will be in the Vatican for Easter, Fernandez replied: "He could return but the doctors want to be 100% sure because he thinks that in the little time he has left he wants to spend everything for others and not for himself." The cardinal recalled that "the Pope did not want to go to the hospital, very close friends convinced him, I don't know what swear words they used...", joked the Argentine cardinal.
    "But he is a Jesuit from another era, a strong man, who always has the ability to find meaning even in these dark times." Fernandez was speaking on the sidelines of the presentation of the pope's book Viva La Poesia, edited by fellow Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro. (ANSA).