Well that could explain things…
Via IT24:
According to the report, a medical team assessed the pontiff and decided he will not need surgery
The Vatican on Wednesday dismissed an Italian media report that Pope Francis has a curable brain tumor as “unfounded and seriously irresponsible.”
Quotidiano Nazionale (QN), the newspaper which made the claim, said it stood by its story that a “small dark spot” had been detected on the 78-year-old pontiff’s brain several months ago.
The paper said it was discovered by Japanese neurosurgeon Takanori Fukushima, a world expert on skull base tumors who is partly based at the San Rossore di Barbaricina clinic near Pisa in central Italy.