The Vatican continued the Holy Year on Saturday without Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized when he fights pneumonia and complex respiratory infection.
Vatican's press secretary Matteo Bruni presented the shortest update on the Saturday: “Dad was well resting.”
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Doctors on Friday said 88-year-old Francis “not because of danger” And that the main threat facing it will be the beginning of sepsis, a serious blood infection that can occur as a complication of pneumonia.
“It would be very difficult to get out with its breathing problems and its age,” said Dr. Sergio Alfii, Head of Medicine and Surgical Om In Rome, on a press conference on Friday. “The British say that” wood knock “, we say” touch the iron. “Everyone touches what they want,” he said, enrolled in the microphone. “But this is a real risk in these cases: that these germs go into the blood.”
As of Friday, there was no evidence of any sepsis, and the Pope responded to the various drugs he was taking.
“He is not in danger,” said his personal doctor, Dr. Luigi Carboni. “Such as all the fragile patients, I say that they are always on a gold scale: in other words, it takes very little to become unbalanced.”
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Francis, who has a chronic pulmonary disease, was hospitalized at Hemel's Hospital on February 14 after A weekly bronchitis worse.
Doctors first diagnosed Complex viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory infection And then the beginning of pneumonia in both lungs. They prescribed a “absolute rest” and a combination of cortisone and antibiotics, as well as additional oxygen when it needs it.
Carbon, who, together with his personal nurse, Francis Masimilian Strapiti, organized his care in the Vatican, admitted that he insisted on staying in the Vatican to work even after he became ill, “out of institutional and private commitments.” He was cared for by a cardiologist and an infectious specialist other than his personal medical team before hospitalized.
“He knows he is threatened,” Alfiera added. “And he told us to convey it.”
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Meanwhile, the deacons were going to the Vatican for their special anniversary weekends. Francis became ill at the beginning of the holy year of the Vatican, the celebration of Catholicism once on the account of the century. This weekend, Francis was to mark Deacons, a ministry in the church preceding the priesthood.
In its place, the organizer of the Holy Year will celebrate Mass on Sunday, the Vatican said. And in the second weekend, Francis had to miss his traditional Sunday at noon the blessing he could deliver from Hemeli if he gave it to him.
“Look, though he is not (physically) here, we know he is here,” said Luis Arnaldo Lopez Kirindang, Deacon from Pons, Puerto -Rica, who was in the Vatican on Saturday for the anniversary celebration. “He recovers, but he accompanies us in our hearts because our prayers and it are together.”
As his hospital reaches, some Francis cardinals began to respond to the obvious question: can Francis resign if he becomes irreversibly ill and cannot continue. Francis said he considered this after Pope Benedict XVI “opened the door” to retire but show no signs of care and actually claimed that the work of the Pope occupies life