The position of Pope Francis remained stable but complicated on Friday as he fights pneumonia in the hospital, the Vatican said, “A day after issuing an audio message in which the 88 -year -old man seemed weak and breathable.”
On Thursday evening, a message broadcast to pilgrims at St. Peter Square was the first time the world heard the Pope’s voice as he was admitted to Jamelli Hospital in Rome on 14 February.
Argentina Pontiff has faced many respiratory crises since his entry, recently on Monday.
In the midst of rapid online speculation, Fuel, The Holi C on Thursday released a small audio message recorded by Francis on Thursday.
The Pope said, “I thank your health for your health from the lower part of my heart for your health. I go with you from here.”
“God bless you and the virgin protects you. Thank you.”
Argentina spoke in her original Spanish, pulling speculation, she could not make the power to speak in Italian, which is used for the official Vatican business.
But a Vatican source insisted that Francis wanted to speak in a language that would have comprehensive viewers.
The Vatican Press Office stated that the Pope’s position on Friday was “stable”, but it was still in a “complex clinical condition”, so “the diagnosis of the disease remains preserved”.
The Pope did a little work and did some physiotherapy, but mostly rested and prayed, which includes spending about 20 minutes in the Little Chapel that is part of the pope suit of the hospital.
He continues to switch between an oxygen mask and an entrance at night-a plastic tube transports high-flow oxygen during tuck-day in the nostril.
‘Good sign’
When this message was broadcast in the front class of the Basilica of St. Peter, where prayers are held every evening for the Pope, applause between hundreds of pilgrims.
“We were very happy that he could say,” John Meloni said, a 76 -year -old English pilgrim, visited Rome for the 2025 Jubilee Holi Year celebrations.
“It’s a good sign that he is really able to speak,” he told AFP, “he is moving a long way so that he is in the hands of God.”
But for Rome’s 50 -year -old Italian Claudia Bianchi, “hit me to hear so tired”.
Vatican spokesperson Mateo Bruni said that this Francis was himself who wanted to broadcast the message.
The Pope’s message was on the front page of several Italian newspapers, stating that it was an attempt by the Vatican to disintegrate Pontif’s deteriorating or even death.
He noted the weakness of his voice, in which the courier dela Sera Daily described it as “pain”.
Change in communication
For more transparency, in dialect, the Vatican is publishing an update on how the Pope slept every morning, followed by a more wide medical bulletin every evening.
It said on Thursday that “looking at the stability of the clinical picture”, there will be no medical bulletin on Friday evening, next Saturday.
However, “The doctors are still maintaining a reserved pregnancy”, said, which means they would not say how they expect their position to develop.
On Friday morning, the Vatican provided a general brief update, stating that Francis “passed a cool night and woke up for some time after 8:00 am (0700 GMT)”.
During the previous hospital hospitality, the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics appeared on the Jamelli Balconi for his weekly Sunday Angelus prayer.
But he has missed the last three, and no announcement has been made yet whether he will make an appearance at the end of this week.
Pope has faced a series of health issues in recent years from colon surgery to a hernia operation in 2023, but it is his sinner’s longest and most serious hospitalized hospital.
On 22 February, he suffered a “prolonged asthma respiratory crisis” and on 28 February there was a “separate crisis of bronchospasm” – a tight of the muscles that line up the airways in the lungs.
On Monday 3 March, Francis experienced “two episodes of acute respiratory failure, which is due to an endobronicial mucus and a significant accumulation of bronchospasm”, the Vatican said.
Francis’ health has regularly speculated, especially among his critics, such as he can resign like his predecessor, Benedict XVI.
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