George getting back in form
When Cardinal Francis George cracks a joke after a mishap, you know he’s okay.
Cardinal Francis George was back working Monday after a weekend mishap, joking “I feel good except when it hurts.”
Good one, Eminence. Underneath that deep philosophical mind, you have always been an eminently practical man.
The 70-year-old George, who fell Saturday at a Northwest Side church, said he expects to recover from a fractured femur in about six to eight weeks.
The spiritual leader of Chicago Roman Catholics worked Monday from his residence on North State Pkwy., said Archdiocese of Chicago spokesman James Accurso.
In a radio interview, George lamented that the fall caused him to miss Easter mass at the cathedral for the first time in 10 years. He was blessing children’s Easter baskets at St. Ferdinand parish when “I got some water on the marble floor and I slipped,” he told WGN-AM.
He got carried away with the holy water. The Archdiocese of Chicago needs that zeal back in action.
God speed.
