Pope Skips Audience Because of Illness

World | September 24, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00

Pope John Paul II skipped his weekly public audience on Wednesday because of what the Vatican called mild "intestinal problems."The Vatican said the pope's disorder was "mild" but that it decided to have Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican secretary of state, represent the pontiff at the weekly audience. Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in statement that the pope had become ill Tuesday afternoon with intestinal problems and decided to scrap the audience on advice from his doctors.

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