The device and app also collect data on steps, calories ... Users can select from several Rosary programs. "Once the prayer begins, the smart rosary shows the user’s progression throughout ...

The latest statement suggests that the 88-year-old is able to sit in his chair, eat normally and do what the Vatican calls "light work".

After praying the rosary, a 24-year-old Argentine who moved to Rome two years ago to work as a waiter, stood alone a few steps from the large obelisk in the center of the square, wrapped in an ...