Archbishop Gänswein: Benedict XVI’s Illness Is ‘Subsiding’ feedproxy.google.com

A skin disease that has been afflicting Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is “subsiding” and he is on the mend, his personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein has said.

Speaking at a cultural event in the Black Forest over the weekend, Archbishop Gänswein said the rash that could be seen on Benedict’s face had lessened and his medication was reduced a few days ago, according to the Austrian Catholic news site Kath.net citing German media reports.

The Pope Emeritus, 93, had been suffering from a bacterial infection of the skin that causes a painful rash. It came on in mid-June and the soreness began after the death on July 1 of his brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, whom Benedict had just visited in Regensburg…

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