Pope Francis approved a new three -year process to consider reforms for the Global Catholic Church, the Vatican said on Saturday, the 88 -year -old Pontif plans plan to continue as the Pope, despite the ongoing fight with double pneumonia.
Francis has extended a signature initiative of his 12 -year -old sinner to the work of the bishop’s Dharmasabha, which discusses the possibility of women working as Catholic sisters and improvement of improvement of LGBTQ people in the church.
Sinod, who held an indoors of bishops on the future of the church last October, will now hold counseling with Catholics around the world for the next three years, before hosting a new summit in 2028.
The Vatican said on Saturday that Francis on Tuesday approved the new process for reforms from Jameli Hospital in Rome, where he is being treated.
The Pope has been in the hospital for more than a month and his prolonged public absence has speculated that he may choose to follow his predecessor Benedict XVI and resign from a sinner.
But his friends and biographers have insisted that they have no plans to step down, and the approval of a new three -year process indicated that he wants to continue despite his age and is likely to face a long, horrific road to recover from pneumonia, looking at his age and other medical conditions.
“The Holy Father … is helping the renewal of the church towards a new missionary impulse,” the Cardinal Mario Grat, the Church official led the reform process. “This is really a sign of hope.”
After the previous October incarnate the Vatican Summit, which did not take any concrete action on possible reforms, Francis faced questions whether his sinful was running out of steam.
The Vatican officials said at the time that Francis was still considering the future changes, and was waiting to receive a series of ten expected reports about possible reforms in June.
The latest medical bulletin from the Vatican on the Pope’s position in the hospital has said that it is improving and is no longer in danger of death.
He has not said when he will be discharged from the hospital.
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