VATICAN: The Vatican has silenced the controversy surrounding the ugly news of demise of His Holiness Pope Francis flooding the airwaves and social media platforms across the globe.
Earlier on his hospital bed , Pope Francis said ,”My time is near and I want you to promise me that the love will be sustained among all humans” and this statement expanded the speculation that the Pope has passed on as reported on various news papers.
This Sunday morning, Vatican News 23/02/24 reports that Pope Francis is being treated for double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. Pope Francis is being treated for double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital (ANSA).
Pope Francis had peaceful night in the hospital as reported.
Doctors in Saturday night’s medical bulletin said the pope continued to be alert and had spent the day in a chair in his room, “even if he was in more pain” than previous days.
Further information on his medical condition is expected Sunday night as special communion service is expected to be going on across the Catholic Christian faith.
On Sunday morning, the Holy See Press Office said Pope Francis had a peaceful ninth night in Rome’s Gemelli hospital where he is being treated for double pneumonia.
In furtherance, Vatican News reported that Pope Francis had a peaceful ninth night in the hospital.
The Holy See Press Office also published on Sunday morning, issuing its latest note to journalists as the Holy Father is being treated for double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital.
Saturday night, the Press Office issued the following evening health update on the Holy Father:
The condition of the Holy Father continues to be critical. Therefore, as explained yesterday, the Pope is not out of danger.
This Sunday morning, Pope Francis experienced an asthma-like respiratory crisis of prolonged intensity, which required the administration of high-flow oxygen.
Today’s blood tests also revealed thrombocytopenia, associated with anemia, which required the administration of blood transfusions.
The Holy Father remains alert and spent the day in an armchair, although he is more fatigued than yesterday. At the moment, the prognosis remains guarded.
At a press conference in Rome’s Gemelli hospital on late Friday afternoon, Dr Sergio Alfieri, the head of the team taking care of the Pope, and Dr Luigi Carbone, the Vice-Director of the Vatican’s healthcare service, spoke for some forty minutes to a roomful of journalists.
The pair said that they believed the Pope would be hospitalised for “at least” the entirety of the next week, and that Pope Francis is not “in danger of death,” but he’s also not fully “out of danger.”
Pope at Gemelli hospital: Respiratory crisis on Saturday morning, Dr Alfieri emphasised that the Pope is not attached to a ventilator, although he is still struggling with his breathing and consequently keeping his physical movements limited.
Nevertheless, the physician said, the Pope is sitting upright in a chair, working, and joking as usual. Alfieri said that when one of the doctors greeted the Pope by saying “Hello, Holy Father”, he replied with “Hello, Holy Son”.
Asked by a journalist what their greatest fear is, the doctors noted that there is a risk that germs in the Pope’s respiratory tract might enter his bloodstream, causing sepsis.
Dr Alfieri did say, however, that he was confident that Pope Francis would leave the hospital at some point and return to Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican – with the proviso that when he does so, his chronic respiratory issues will remain.
This latest research news update by 9News Nigeria is a silencer to the trending rumour making the rounds that His Holiness Pope Francis is dead.
9News Nigeria will keep updating our esteemed readers on the development concerning the health condition of His Holiness Pope Francis while stating authoritatively that Pope Francis is still alive undergoing serious treatment and he’s breathing at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital at this Sunday morning Press Time.
Recall that Pope Francis has made women full members of dicasteries in the Roman Curia. He maintains that the Catholic Church should be more sympathetic toward members of the LGBTQ+ community and has stated that while blessings of same-sex unions are not permitted, the individuals can be blessed as long as blessings are not given in a liturgical context.
Pope Francis is a critic of unbridled capitalism, consumerism, and overdevelopment and has made action on climate change a leading focus of his papacy. He is widely interpreted as denouncing the death penalty as intrinsically evil, stating that the Catholic Church is committed to its abolition.
In international diplomacy, Pope Francis has criticized the rise of right-wing populism, called for the decriminalization of homosexuality, helped to restore full diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, negotiated a deal with China to define how much influence the Communist Party has in appointing Chinese bishops, and has supported the cause of refugees.
He has called on the Western world to increase immigration levels significantly. In 2022, he apologized for the Church’s role in the “cultural genocide” of the Canadian Indigenous peoples. Additionally, in 4th October 2023, His Holiness Pope Francis convened the beginnings of the Synod on Synodality which was described as the culmination of his papacy and the most important event in the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council.
Born 17th December 1936 is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.
Pope Francis is the servant of servants of God and deserve to be prayed for God to grant him a good rest and speedy healing power to recover.
“In communion in faith and prayer, each one in their own community, will raise our prayer to the Lord for the Holy Father, so that he sustain him with his grace and fill him with the strength necessary to get through this moment of trial.”
-Princely Onyenwe reporting
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