It was a minor fracture but it will prevent him from playing the piano, which he loves to do, to relax. At the hospital the Holy Father insisted on waiting his turn for treatment.
CWN reports:
Pope Benedict XVI broke his wrist in a fall at his vacation home in the Italian Alps on July 17.
Father Federico Lombardi, the papal spokesman, said that the Pope’s injury was a “slight fracture of the right wrist,” incurred when the 82-year-old Pope slipped in his bathtub. The Holy Father was able to celebrate Mass and have breakfast before making the decision to have his injury checked at the hospital in nearby Aosta, he said. More here with link.
