Pope FrancisIn a critical condition with a complex lung infection, she rested well on her good night, said the Vatican on Sunday, but all this still touches his age, fragility and previous lung disease.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Brune did not mention in the early Sunday whether Francis was coming out of bed or breakfast. “The night went quietly, the dad rested.”
A brief update occurred a few hours after the doctors said that an 88-year-old Pontiff, which became part of one lung, was in a critical condition after he survived a long asthmatic breathing crisis.
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Francis was hospitalized during a week when treatment for pneumonia and complex lung infection. It was taken to Hemli Rome Hospital on February 14 after A weekly bronchitis worse.
On Saturday, the Pope received “high flows” of oxygen to help him breathe, as well as blood transfusions after the tests showed the low number of platelets that are needed for a thickening, the Vatican said in a late update.
A statement on Saturday also said that the Pontiff “continues to write and spent a day in a chair, albeit more than yesterday.” Doctors said the forecast was “restrained”.
“We feel that Pope Francis is next to us”
Francis was to mark the Mass on Sunday morning in St. Peter's Basilica and dedicated hundreds of deacons within the framework of the Vatican Holy Year.
The organizer of the Holy Year, Archbishop Rina Fisichel, noted the Mass in its place and offered a special prayer for Francis from the altar before delivering the sermon prepared by the Pope.
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“Despite the fact that he is in the hospital bed, we feel that Pope Francis next to us, we feel him present among us,” said Hundreds of white deacons. “And it makes us make us an even stronger and intense prayer that the Lord will help him during the trial and illness.
The wild anniversary, the day of the Holy Year, dedicated to deacons, will attract more than 6,000 pilgrims from approximately 100 countries to Rome.
The Vatican hierarchy has assumed resignation
Meanwhile, the Vatican hierarchy went to defend to stifle the rumors and assumptions that Francis could resolve. The Canon law does not provide for what to do when the pope becomes disabled. Francis said he wrote a letter of resignation that would be caused if he had been a medical impossibility to make such a decision.
In an interview with CBS NEWS in May 2024Francis said the idea of leaving him never came to mind.
“Perhaps when the day comes when my health cannot go on,” Francis said. “Perhaps because the only infirmitory I have is in the knee, and it becomes much better. But I never came to mind.”
Francis, picked up on the papacy In 2013 at the age of 76, after its predecessor Benedict XVI became the first Pope retire approximately 600 years oldreferring to it a decrease in health before you go down. He died in 2022 at the age of 95.
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Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Pietro, gave rare interview to Corriere della Sera to respond to speculation and rumors about possible resignation. This happened after the Vatican issued an unusual and official refusal to the Italian media report, which stated that the Pope's Paralin and Chief Canalist visited Francis at the hospital secretly. Given the canonical requirements to make the resignation legal, the consequences of such a meeting were significant, but in the Vatican apartment denied that such a meeting took place.
Paralin said such assumptions seemed “useless” when the health of Francis, his recovery and return to the Vatican.
“On the other hand, I believe that it is quite normal, that in these situations, uncontrolled rumors may be distributed or said some wrong comment. This is definitely not the first time it happened,” Paralin said. “However, I do not think there is some specific movement, and I still haven't heard anything like this.”