The Vatican said on Tuesday, after new tests showed that Bob Francis has developed bilateral pneumonia.
The Vatican said that the respiratory infection of Francis also involves asthma bronchitis, which requires the use of antibiotic therapy for cortisone. The Vatican said: “Laboratory tests, X -rays on the chest, and the clinical condition of the Holy Father continues to present a complex image.”
Vatican spokesman Matteo Brunei said in a late update that the Pope was in good moral condition and is grateful for prayer for his recovery.
On Tuesday, the Vatican canceled the papal fans during the weekend and exposed others to cover Pope Francis.
While other Vatican operations continued as a nature, the cancellation was put inhibitoring the events coming for the Holy Year in the Vatican, the Catholic celebration in the last century, which aims to encourage pilgrims to come to Rome to participate in the special jubilee activities. It is expected to attract about 30 million people to Rome, as the Holy Year is full of the public and the papal audiences throughout 2025, some of which have now been offered to Francis.
Francis was accepted at Jimili Hospital in Rome in a “fair” condition on Friday after bad bronchitis for a week. On Monday, medical employees decided that he was suffering from an escalating multi -respiratory infection, which means a mixture of viruses and bacteria and perhaps other organisms had colonized the respiratory system.
The Vatican has not given any indication of the period in which he might remain in the hospital, saying only that treating such a “complex clinical image”, which had already required two changes in the drug system, would require “sufficient” residence.
“The Pope is at the risk of pneumonia due to this polymeleral bronchitis,” said Dr. Carmelo Desero, a disease expert in Rome in Rome. “We will see the effect of this new treatment in four to five days.”
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D’Asero, who does not participate in the care of Francis, pointed out that his lack of fever was necessarily a positive thing, given the danger of his enemies.
He said: “The high fever is a sign of the immune response to a nurse.” “Getting a low fever and dangerous popular infection … is a sign of low immune response and this makes us worry a little more, let’s say. Maybe if he had a fever, he would be better.”
Vatican spokesman Matteo Brunei said Francis spent a quiet night again, ate breakfast and read newspapers on Tuesday morning. It was expected that a more detailed medical update later was expected.
On Monday, Francis resumed carrying out some works and conducted his daily invitation to the diocese of Gaza City to verify the Catholic community there. In a sign that the other Vatican works were participating as usual on Tuesday, the Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Petro Parolin, continued his sensitive visit to Burkina Faso and the top of the Vatican Cardinal, Cardinal Michael Cerry, ready to leave on Wednesday to visit a five -day visit to Lebanon.
But other business had to be canceled. There will be no weekly public fans on Wednesday, and it is not clear whether Francis will miss a blessing on Sunday for the second week in a row.
The weekend in the Holy Year of the Deaches is allocated, the ministry that is a necessary step for men who are preparing to become priests. Francis had a non -relevant audience on Saturday and was supposed to have set the deacon during the mass on Sunday. The Vatican announced on Tuesday that his fans had been canceled and that the head of the bishop, who is organizing the jubilee, will celebrate the mass in the place of the Pope. It is a similar arrangement announced by the Vatican last week when the artists in the city had to settle for the calculated papacy fans and the Cardinal chairing their own mass.
The following jubilee events in the calendar, which usually includes the Pope is the weekend from 8 to 9 March for volunteers.
Francis was part of the lung that was removed after a pulmonary infection when it was young and vulnerable to bronchitis attacks in the winter. In the past, he admitted that he is an incompatible patient, and even his aides close to the Vatican said he had paid himself to a large extent even by the diagnosis of bronchitis.
He refused to get rid of his busy agenda and ignore his medical advice to stay inside during the cold winter in Rome, and insisted on sitting through the outdoor jubilee mass of the armed forces on February 9, although he was facing a breathing problem.
The acceptance of this year’s Francis Hospital has marginalized it longer than 2023 for pneumonia.
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