Need a tequila shot for my knee pain, jokes Pope

LONDON

: His doctors have prescribed a wheelchair, cane and physical therapy to help heal

Pope

Francis’ bad knee. He has other ideas.

Francis

was riding in the popemobile in St. Peter’s Square when he stopped near agroup of Mexican seminarians from the

Legion of Christ

who asked him in his native Spanish how his knee was doing. “Do you know what I need for my knee?” Francis asked them from the popemobile.

“Some tequila. ” The seminarians laughed and promised to deliver a bottle to the Santa Marta hotel where Francis lives. The 85-year-old Argentine pope has been suffering from strained ligaments in his right knee for months, and on doctors' orders, recently has been using awheelchair and a cane to get around so he can let it heal.