Pope cancels audience and skips speeches due to ‘bad cold’

He later cancelled a planned audience with members of an Italian YMCA group, the Holy See said in its daily bulletin.

Pope Francis (Andrew Medichini/AP)

Pope Francis has cancelled one audience and skipped speeches he was set to deliver on Thursday because of a bad cold, the Vatican said.

Francis, 86, did meet with young Orthodox priests and monks and members of the Max Planck Society, the German research organisation that is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.