The Vatican said that Pope Francis was aware, but he was still receiving high flow of additional oxygen on Sunday as he remained in critical condition with pneumonia and complex lung infections. Prayers flowed for him from all over the world, from Argentina’s hometown to the seat of the Sunni Islam in Cairo to school students in Rome.
In New York, Cardinal Timothy Doulan said what church leaders in Rome publicly did not say: Catholic believers were united “in a bed of a father who dies.”
“Since our holy father, Pope Francis is in very fragile health, and perhaps near death,” said Doulan in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, without saying that he has information independent of the Pope’s condition.
In Rome, the Vatican restricted himself by saying that Francis, who is 88 years old, who suffers from pneumonia in both lungs and was part of the lung that a young man removed, is still receiving high flow of additional oxygen after a respiratory crisis on Saturday. More clinical tests were performed.
“The night passed quietly, the Pope has settled,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Brunei said in an early statement. It was expected that a more detailed medical update later on Sunday.
On Saturday, Francis suffered from a long respiratory crisis of asthma that requires high flows of oxygen to help him breathe through the nose tube. The Vatican said he also received blood transfers after tests showed low platelets, which need to be thrown into.
The doctors said on Saturday that his diagnosis is “reserved.”
Doctors said that the condition of Francis is touching and moving, given his age, fragility and pre -existing lung diseases. He has revived speculation about what might happen if he becomes unconscious or unable to do so, and whether he might resign.
Pope’s prayer in the Vatican
Francis was supposed to celebrate the Mass on Sunday morning in the Church of St. Peter, and ordered the deacon as part of the celebration of the Holy Year throughout the year in the Vatican.
The organizer of the sacred year, Archbishop Renault Vesicilla, celebrated the Mass in his place and presented a special prayer for Francis from the altar before he presented the Pope.
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“Although he is in a hospital bed, we feel Pope Francis near us, we feel that he is present among us,” said Vesicilla for hundreds of white deacons.
A previously written message was prepared for Francis for reading on Sunday, but she did not spare that he said that he “continues with confidence in the hospital at Jimili Hospital, continuing the necessary treatment; the rest is also part of the treatment!” Russia for Ukraine, “a painful and shameful occasion for the entire humanity.”
Meanwhile, in the indigenous Argentina in Francis, the Catholics prayed for the Pope at the Boinos Aires Cathedral, and the famous city’s obelisk, “Francis, the city prayed for you.”
In Cairo, Imam Al -Azhar Al -Kabeer, the headquarters of the Sunni education that designed a close association with Francis, wished to be well.
Sheikh Ahmed Al -Habib wrote in a Facebook post: “I pray to God to give my dear brother, Pope Francis, a rapid recovery and bless him in good health and well -being so that he can continue his journey in the service of humanity.” .
School children from all over Rome collected Gemelli Hospital with Get-Well cards, while the Italian bishops performed the pink prayer and celebrated special fans throughout Italy.
The main threat facing the Pope is blood rot
Doctors have warned that the main threat facing Francis is blood rot, a dangerous blood infection that can occur as a multiple pneumonia. As of Friday, there was no evidence of any blood rot, and Francis was responding to the various drugs he was taking.
Francis has developed a low number of platelets, a condition called Platelopenia or interous deficiency. Platelets are shrapnel similar to cells that revolve in the blood that help to form blood clots to stop bleeding or help wounds heal. Low platelet census can be a number of things, including side effects of medications or infections.
Francis, who suffers from chronic lung disease and is subject to bronchitis in the winter, was accepted at Jimili Hospital on February 14 after a bad bout of bronchitis.
Doctors first diagnosed the complex infection in the viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory infection, and then the appearance of pneumonia in both lungs. They described “absolute comfort” and a group of cortisone and antibiotics, along with additional oxygen when it needs it.
Francis’s recent reforms indicate that he knows that he is growing and more fragile
Francis made many recent decisions that he was well aware that he was old and weak.
Last year, he reviewed the funeral rituals that will be used after his death, simplifying the rituals to confirm his role as a bishop and allow the burial outside the Vatican in line with his desires. But the basic elements of the rituals, including the three main moments that must be observed between the death of the Pope and his funeral: in his home, in the Church of St. Peter and the burial.
In December, Francis created 21 new Cardinal. Each except one was less than 80 years old, and therefore qualified to vote on one of the parties to elect it. Their additions raised the total number of crushers at the age of voting to 140, O maximum 120 set by St. John Paul II. But many current voters are 80 years old this year, which reduces the number.
Earlier this month, as soon as he was already ill, Francis decided to extend the five -year period of the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Batista, 91, instead of making room for a new person. As shown in the movie “Conclave”, the Dean of the College of Cardinate plays an important role in the life of the Catholic hierarchy, a decisive figure during the transition between one papacy and the other.
Francis also decided to extend the duration of the deputy of the feast, Cardinal Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, 81.
