For centuries, one of the largest taboos in the Vatican was openly discussing the Pope’s health. As the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholic, the Pope is a revered spiritual person. Talking about his worldly health was impure.
But as Pope Francis has fought double pneumonia at Jamelli Hospital in Rome since 14 February, the Vatican is trying to do something new. Holi C press office is giving daily updates on its position.
This has provided details such as the use of the high-function of the Pope and its requirement for blood transfusion, and even described “prolonged respiratory crisis” on 22 February.
“I am carefully impressed,” said Greg Eralandson, an American journalist who has covered the Vatican for decades.
Together, the update “build trust that we are receiving fairly accurate summary of the Pope’s position” said Eralandson, a former editor of the Catholic news service.
John Thawis, a Vatican Correspondent for three times, said the new transparency “fits with the open style of Francis, but the Pope is a departure from the traditional reserve of the Vatican on the subject of health”.
Two doctors treating Francis told in a press conference on 21 February that he was the Pope himself who had ordered the daily update.
Doctor Sergio Alpiery at Jamelli Hospital said that the instructions were to write updates “without stopping anything”.
Medical updates reflect Pope Francis’s desire for openness
A person is often known to talk with Francis, who was not nominated to discuss the preferences of the Pope without any authority, said that Pontiff himself prepared the update draft in his first days in the hospital Help did, and pushed his doctors to give more specific details about it. Status and treatment.
Thawis said that Francis “wanted the gravity of his condition became clear”.
Vatican officials have not publicly talked about the causes of detailed updates, but privately, many officials have expressed concern about the spread of misinformation.
Soon after the Pope’s hospital was hospitalized, the social media post claimed that he had died or was given the funeral. With the help of a ventilator, false AI-rendered images also started moving to show him to keep him alive.
The Pope’s daily medical update has repeatedly stated that he is breathing on its own, but sometimes oxygen is being provided, as required, through a small tube below his nose.
Jesuit’s priest and commentator said, “The Vatican has finally learned that it is better to come up with the conspiracy theorists to fill the zero.”
Pope John Paul II, whose sinner had gone from 1978–2005, was shocked for years before confirming the Vatican in 2003 that he had Parkinson’s disease.
And stomach cancer suffered Pope John XXIII for at least eight months, detected a long time after his death in 1963.
“The old saying is that the Pope is never ill until he becomes ill,” said Christopher Beltto, a historian of Keen University, New Jersey, who studies the Catholic Church. “It has changed.”
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