"Mild flu symptoms" unaccompanied by febrile states. The Vatican Press Office updated yesterday morning on the Pope's decision to suspend "as a precaution" the scheduled audiences, as had already happened last Saturday when a similar note had informed of the "mild flu-like state" that had seized Francis. The ailment had nonetheless allowed the Pope to be able to look out at noon from the window of his study over St. Peter's Square on Sunday and to preside over the recitation of the Angelus, followed by appeals for peace in Ukraine, two years after the outbreak of war, and the return of dialogue in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the scene of kidnappings and violence.