Vatican City – Pope Francis stayed Important but stable On Tuesday evening, he is battling double pneumonia, as his blood parameters remained stable while working in the hospital, the Vatican said.
The Vatican update said the 88-year-old Pope had undergone a follow-up CAT scan Tuesday evening to confirm a lung infection. However, it suggests that the results have not returned yet, as the scan did not provide details of what it showed. The doctor said he had no further respiratory crisis and said his prognosis remained protected.
“After receiving the Eucharist in the morning, he resumed his work activities,” the Vatican statement said.
Vatican sources said the Pope’s status remained the same Tuesday morning as the previous night, and he was able to get out of bed and eat his own breakfast.
The Vatican said that the Pope is sufficient to meet with the Vatican Secretary of State and sufficient to approve a new decree for the saints. It suggested that despite his hospitalization in a dangerous state, he has achieved the essential task and is looking ahead.
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The Vatican’s midday breakthrough Tuesday included a series of key decisions. Most importantly, Francis met Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Peña, the “alternative” or chief of staff of the Vatican. It was the first time the Pope had met Parolyn, essentially the Vatican prime minister, since his hospitalization on February 14th.
Within the audience, Francis approved the decree for five for two new saints and bliss. Francis also decided to “convey consistency on future canoeing.”
Francis regularly approves decrees from the Vatican Holy Making Office while in the Vatican. Consistency, which is the formal meeting of the Cardinals, setting the date of canoeing is a ritual step necessary in the process of making that saint, but given his illness, the announcement is also positive. did.
No meeting dates are set. However, there was also mediocre consistency to set the date for canoeing on February 11th, 2013. He will resign Because he could not keep up with the harshness of the Pope. Francis said Benedict considered resigning after “opening the door” and became the first pope to retire in 600 years.
In addition to his audience with Parolin, the Vatican released Francis’ message leading up to Easter, with yet another indication of future appearance. In subsequent bulletins, Francis appointed a handful of new bishops for Brazil, the new archbishop of Vancouver, and amended the state laws of Vatican City to create a new hierarchy.
Many, if not all of these decisions, could have been in the work for a while. But the Vatican says Francis is working in hospitals, including signing documents.
On Tuesday morning, the Vatican’s typical short morning update stated that “the Pope slept well all night.”
Doctors said he remained at risk with dual pneumonia on Monday evening, but reported “slight improvements” in several experimental results. In the brightest breaking news of a few days, they said he had resumed work from his hospital room and called out a parish in Gaza city that he has been in contact since the war began.
After falling every night, thousands of faithful people gather in the chilly, rain-wet and rain-wet St. Peter’s square, the first reading of the evening Rosary reciting. The prayer evoked the 2005 vigil, when St. John Paul II was dying at the Apostles’ Palace, but the people at hand said they were praying for Francis’ recovery.
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The Vatican Secretary of State said that since Francis was hospitalized, the chorus of prayers for his recovery have swelled from around the world, standing at the same stage as Francis normally hosting.
“From this evening, we want to be openly united in this prayer here at his house,” Parolyn says, praying that Francis will recover quickly, “in this illness and the moment of trial.” I did.
The Argentine Pope has part of one lung removed as a young man, and doctors say his condition is moving given his age, vulnerability and pre-existing lung disease .
However, in Monday’s update, they said he didn’t have any more Breathing crisis Saturday and supplemental oxygen flow and concentrations have slightly decreased. Slight kidney failure The Sunday when detected has not been raised at this time, doctors said, but his prognosis remains protected.
Still, the mood was almost strict in the monumental square, and many of the assembled understandings of around 4,000 people understood that they might be in Rome for Francis’ last days. The crowd either sat under umbrella on a folding chair or stood by a vast colonnade, reflecting nostalgically the Pope’s heritage.
“To see him hurt,” said Robert Pietro of the Romanian seminary, who stood praying with a small, fragrant candle in his tribute. “But we also pray with gratitude for what he did for the Church.”
Roberto Allison, a priest in Guadalajara, Mexico, said members of his community gathered to thank “all they learned from him.”
Stopping to deliver personal blessings at the end of the ceremony, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said that crowd diversity (where many world languages ​​are heard speak) has been a “great sign of comfort for the Catholic Church. “I said.
Several Catholic tourists from Chicago who arrived with umbrellas long before the service began said they had decided to return to pray for the Pope at a daily mass at St. Peter’s Cathedral . Like many, they felt “difficult to deal with” that could be in Rome for Francis’ last days.
“No one knows the day and time, but it’s still a historic moment,” Edward Bourzek said.
I felt the same way with Hatzumi Villanueva in Peru. She particularly liked former Pope St. John Paul II, but Francis said he was the first Latin American pope.
“We came to pray for the Pope. He may recover soon. He is for his great mission to share the message of peace,” he praised his sympathy for immigrants, saying, “We have come to pray for the Pope. He may recover soon. He is for his great mission to share his message of peace.” Villanueva said.
It emphasizes the defense of Francis’ Pope environment And partially Openness to LGBTQ+ rights.
Outside the Vatican, Romans, pilgrims and even non-Catholics said they were offering special prayers for the pope they were hospitalized.
“Sorry,” said Raniero Mancinelli, who coordinated ceremonial clothes for Francis and the two previous Popes at his shop just outside the Vatican wall.
Elizabetta Zumbo carried an enclosed five-foot cross on the street leading to St. Peter as he prepares to lead a group of 34 pilgrims from the northern Italian city of Pianza. As the rain fell, she vowed that her group would pray vigorously for the Pope.
“There’s a lot of emotions and a lot of sadness,” Zumbo said.
Nearby, a London couple visiting St. Peter with their son said they approached the bishop “at his house” in the monumental cathedral, despite them not being Catholic .
