Winkler told the crowd, If you stay at the table long enough, the chips come to you, Then, he jokingly told his adult children that they could go to bed now. Daddy won, he laughed.
" So do you think we're a bunch of superstitious natives or what? " he asked in a playful tone, but with a hint of worry. I still hadn't looked away from the ocean. I turned and smiled at him as normally as I could.
'Well, you certainly touched upon rather a tender point. Might I ask how you know, and how much you know? ' He spoke now in a halfjesting fashion, but a look of terror still lurked at the back of his eyes.
The pontiff has remained active despite his hospitalization, continuing to make bishop appointments, and he met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday, where she said he " joked around as always."