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I don't get this. What does a cast have to do with being able to pray?

Pope 'Can't Pray' With Wrist In Cast

AP/Huffington Post | By COLLEEN BARRY



LES COMBES, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI spent a calm night after breaking his wrist in his Alpine vacation chalet and is learning to cope with the cast on his right arm, the Vatican said Saturday.

Benedict, 82, will stick to his schedule of public appearances, including the traditional Angelus prayer on Sunday, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement.

Benedict had surgery at the hospital of the nearby town of Aosta on Friday to set his right wrist, fractured when he fell overnight in a chalet where he staying in the mountain hamlet of Les Combes, near the French border.

The right-handed pope will have to keep the cast for a month. Lombardi said the toughest part for Benedict was giving up writing by hand, which he intended to do often during his vacation.

The AFP also reported that the Pope couldn't pray with his hand in a cast:

"Pope Benedict XVI celebrated mass Saturday with his broken wrist in plaster but bemoaned an inability to clasp his hands together in prayer, his closest officials said."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/18/pope-cant-pray-with-wrist_n_239653.html