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Pope Francis He immediately rested after a failure in his recovery caused by a respiratory crisis prevailed, as he remained in a hospital that was recovering from double pneumonia.
“The Pope has been resting well all night,” the Vatican said on Monday morning.
Francis, 88, is in a stable state, excludes mechanical ventilation and does not show indications of new infection after a respiratory crisis that occurred late last week.
The Pope was admitted to the Gemelli Roman hospital on February 14th after worsening a one -day bronchitis a week. The doctors first diagnosed the complex infection of the viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract and then the occurrence of pneumonia in both lungs.
Pope Francis of mechanical fans, no fever or signs of infection: Vatican
Pope Francis waved from his Popemobile after a weekly prayer of Angelas, on St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on October 20, 2024. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty)
Doctors said the Pope spent all day on Sunday without using a non -invasive mechanical ventilation mask that pumps oxygen in the lungs that used after a breathing crisis on Friday. Francis continued to receive a high additional oxygen flow through the nasal pipe.
The respiratory crisis on Friday led to concern about the new lung infection, as Francis inhaled to vomit. The doctors aspired this and said they needed 24 to 48 hours to determine if there was a new infection.
On Sunday, doctors said Francis remained stable, had no fever and did not show signs of infection, suggesting that he had overcome the respiratory crisis.
Vatican gives an update of health because the Pope enters the third week at the hospital
Pope Francis participates in Mass at the Esplanade Tasitol in Dilia, Eastern Timor, September 10, 2024. (Titian Fabi/Pool/AFP/Getty)
But the Pope’s forecast remained guarded, which means he was not out of danger.
Francis missed his weekly blessing again. Instead, the Vatican shared the message the Pope wrote, thanking his doctors for their care and benefactors for their prayers.
In his message he also prayed for peace in Ukraine and elsewhere.
“From here the war appears even more absurd,” Francis said.
Francis said it was To live his hospitalization As an experience of deep solidarity with people who are sick and suffer around the world.
Pope Francis helps his assistant Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, abandoned as he walked with a reed until his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican on June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
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“In my heart, I feel a” blessing “that is hidden in fragility, because in those moments we learn even more to believe in the Lord,” Francis said in the text. “At the same time, I thank God for giving me the opportunity to share the state of so sick and suffering in the body and spirit.”
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski chaired the evening The prayer of the Rosary at St. Peter Square on Sunday night in the Vatican.
“Pray with the whole Church for St. Father’s Health, Francis,” Krajewski said.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
