Pope Francis has shown a slight improvement in laboratory tests on Monday and resumed certain work activities, in particular by calling a parish to Gaza City with which he stayed in contact since the war started, said the Vatican.
THE Vatican The evening bulletin has been more optimistic than in recent days. He said that Francis, 88 years old. Suffering from pneumonia in the two lungs, had no more respiratory crises. The slight kidney failure detected on Sunday was not worrying. He continues to receive additional oxygen and doctors say that his prognosis remains kept.
He received the Eucharist in the morning and resumed work in the afternoon.
“In the evening, he called the parish priest of the Gaza parish to express his paternal proximity,” said the press release.
Earlier Monday, the Vatican announced the start of night prayers for the Pope’s health on Saint-Pierre square, and invited the Romans and others to join, while it fights against a complex pulmonary infection and complications . Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, planned to lead the first prayer on Monday evening.
Francis, who has double pneumonia and the first stages of kidney failure, was awake and in a good mood on Monday. He did not suffer and did not receive artificial nutrition, said the Vatican.
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“The night went well, the pope was sleeping and resting,” he said.
At the Gemelli Hospital, where Francis has been since February 14 after an aggravation of bronchitis, Bishop Claudio Giuloudori presided over an emotional mass and standing in the chapel named for John Paul; Some of the 200 estimated people who participated were in white doctor coats or green surgical scrubs; Some kneeling in prayer.
“We are really sorry. Pope Francis is a good pope, hope he will do it. Hopefully,, ”said a Ferraro Suffée, who visited a parent on Monday to Gemelli. “We join him with our prayers, but what else can we do?”
Late Sunday, the doctors reported that Francis had stayed in critical condition but that he had not experienced other respiratory crises since Saturday. Blood tests have shown “slight early renal failure” which was nevertheless under control.
The doctors said that Francis’ state was touch and Go, given his age, fragility and preexisting pulmonary disease. They warned that the main threat confronted with Francis is sepsis, a serious blood infection that can occur as a complication of pneumonia.
To date, there has been no reference to any beginning of Septicemia in the medical updates provided by the Vatican.
At 10 days, this hospitalization is now the longest of Francis than the Pope. He spent 10 days at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome in 2021 after being withdrawn from 33 centimeters (13 inches) from his colon.
Sunday, in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan recognized what the church leaders in Rome did not say publicly: that the Catholic faithful were united “at the bedside of a dying father”.
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