Pope Francis, hospitalized for a week for pneumonia, is not “out of danger” and will remain admitted “at least all next week”, although he is not connected to any machine and jokes, his doctors reported this Friday, As revealed an office from the French agency AFP
“The Pope is not out of danger,” said Dr. Sergio Alfieri at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where the 88 -year -old pontiff has been admitted since last Friday.
That is why it is advised, “by prudence”, keep it hospitalized “at least all next week,” he added.
Francisco Dr. Alfieri and the personal doctor of Francisco Luigi Carbone offered this Friday the detailed update on the condition of the pontiff, saying that he is animated and in a good mood and that occasionally receives supplementary oxygen when he needs it, responding well to the therapy reinforced pharmacological that was prescribed.
“If we send it to Santa Marta [la residencia del papa en el Vaticano] He will work again as before, ”Alfieri argued and coincided with the criteria of other experts in which the Bishop of Rome must lower the pace of work.
For his part, the Vatican reported that the Argentine Jesuit had spent another night without incident and that in the morning “he got up and had breakfast.”
The Pope receives his closest collaborators these days, Lee, signs documents and makes telephone calls, said the Holy See.
“The clinical state of the Holy Father improved slightly. It is apiratic [sin fiebre] and his hemodynamic parameters [circulación sanguínea] They are still stable, ”added the Vatican statement.
Conjectures about the end of Franciscan papacy
The hospitalization of the Chief of the Catholic Church, the fourth since 2021, has struck the conjectures about his future, since the pontiff went through a series of problems in recent years, from colon and abdomen operations to difficulties in walking, what which has forced him to move in a wheelchair.
The concern about his health was increasing after the dissemination of false information on social networks, especially in X, who reported their death in several languages.
“I know that some say that my time has arrived, they always bring me bad luck!” Francisco replied, according to the Italian press, to the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, when he visited it this week.
The doctors said there was no evidence that germs had entered their bloodstream- a condition known as sepsis, which remains the greatest concern, given its potential to cause organic insufficiency and death.
The doubts about his permanence at the head of the Roman Church, which is followed by more than 1,300 million faithful, has been in the air even since Benedict XVI became the first Pope in 600 years to retire when he concluded , in 2013, that he did not have the physical strength to continue with the demanding demands of the position.
“Everything is possible,” Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, Marseille Archbishop, France, as his colleague Gianfranco Ravasi said Thursday, suggested that it was more than a simple possibility.
“There is no doubt that if he (Francisco) was in a situation where his ability to have direct contact (with people) as he likes to do … he was at risk, then I think he could make the decision to resign,” Ravasi said, said according to the RTL 102.5 broadcast.
Resignation letter prepared since 2013
In 2022, Francisco confirmed that shortly after being elected Pontiff in 2013, he wrote a letter of resignation in case some medical problem prevented him from fulfilling his duties.
In canon law there is no disposition about what to do if a Pope is incapacitated.
However, until the present minute there are no indications that Francisco is incapacitated in some way or that he considers the possibility of giving up.
During his hospital stay he has continued his work, including the appointment of bishops.
The press recalled that after a hospital stay in 2021, Francisco bothered upon learning that some clergy allegedly prepared a conclave to choose their successor, in the best tradition of rumors, intrigues and conspiracies that have happened since the dawn of The Catholic Church as an institution in the fourth century DC
