A Canon212 reader noticed a ‘severe disfigurement’ on Francis’s right hand in a picture of Francis and his joyous assembled propaganda youth. If you click the photo it expands and you can see his hand is sort of covered in lumps:
Here is a closer look:
It resembles a pox or a plague. This picture is some months old. Francis’s right hand looks normal in the hand-snatching, ring-kissing video, but perhaps this has something to do with it.
One possibility is Dupuytrens Contracture, a condition in which the
tendons of the hand shorten, to that the fingers curl towards the palm.
This causes “bumps” along the side of the hand.
Maybe we’ll see him on Dr. Pimple Popper.
Leprosy?