The Pope is on the horizon in the daily Italian life that there are many expressions that illuminate until a dark event like his death.
“The Pope dies, makes another,” one goes, suggests how life continues.
“All the death of the Pope …” begins, which indicates a rare occurrence.
But the most common person when the Pope is actually sick, perhaps the darkest: “The Pope is fine until he dies.”
This was making tours Pope Francis is approaching a week At Jimili Hospital in Rome, pneumonia and complex respiratory infection are fighting.
While the Vatican was offering updates twice a day in his condition and Italian Prime Minister Giojia Miloni She said they were “joking as usual” during her visit on Wednesday, all kinds of reports – correct and not – abounding about Francis’ health.
They took their own life in the era of chat groups, conspiracy theories and themes on the Internet – not to mention the permanent Roman installation of the Pope, which may succeed it.
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It does not help Oscar -nominated movie Good In theaters, everyone made an expert in mysterious rules and amazing drama involved in the papal elections.
Or that recently Francis The dean’s duration extended From the College of Cardinals instead of finding a new person to fill a major job during the next papal transition.
Or in 88, he is one of the oldest popes ever.
Francis still has ways to go to Pope Liu XIII, who died in 1903 at the age of 93. But it is on the right path to equality or bypassing Pope Gregory II Pope Benedict XVI I did it in 2013.
Gregory was 88 years old when she resigned in 1415 to end Western defection, according to the Catholic resources sequence on the Internet.
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Francis often said that, too, he would think of resignation if his health made him unable to continue, although he recently said that the Pope’s function is for life.
Candles with pictures of Pope Francis are placed under the statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Agustino Jimille Bollenge in Rome, Wednesday, February 19, 2025, where the ink has been admitted to the hospital since Friday, February 14th.
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Vatican correspondents usually prepare for next papal trips at this time of the year, but none of them has been confirmed yet. Instead, between medical updates, they prepare stories that look back in his life, only in a state.
“I think the Pope’s saying is fine until he dies,” always true, “said Giovanni Maria Vian, a former editor of the Vatican newspaper Loserfatore Romano, who knows how the Vatican information is managed.
“It is a very Roman way to speak, on the one hand, the traditional suspicion of the Romans and the Italians, but on the other hand, is a media outrage.”
The Vatican has not allowed any member of the Francis Medical Team to appear on the camera or submit detailed updates on his health, and no photos have been launched since February 14.
The papal video feeds rumors
But to understand the extent of the Pope in Italian life, one only needs to think about another tradition that the Italians have noticed by Italians: the annual Sanremo Song festival, a series for a week on Rai TV where viewers vote for the favorite viewers of rising singers who perform at night in Kitschy, Sometimes the Bawdy competition.
When it was broadcast last week, it topped the titles more than usual because Francis-patient is already with bronchitis but not yet in the hospital-appeared on the opening night in a video clip in advance, and a propaganda coup for Sanremo and the first for the Papoy.
When the famous Italian blog dagospia later claimed that the video was presented almost a year ago to another event, it erupted near the Observers in the Vatican.
The clear deception indicated that the latest disease of Francis was much worse than it seemed, and raised questions about the papal hardness if an old video was issued without his knowledge.
As it turned out, Dagospia was a mistake. The video was legitimate, recently and recorded for Sanremo. But it was true that Francis’s bronchitis was actually worse.
By the end of the week, it was In the hospital with lung infection Which turned into pneumonia.
Although the episode emphasized the intuition that the papacy is an issue General general knowledgeAttention and discussion here, and this speculation of the current Pope’s health and who may be the next is a national hobby.
“I am definitely very concerned,” said Maurizio de Volco, who was treated on Tuesday in the same hospital. “I wish him a quick recovery and we pray deeply. The Pope is very good. A great door!
“We hope it is with us for a long time to come.”
Conservative critics weigh in Francis
But elsewhere, Francis’s right-wing critics-are completely unpopular stories-in his condition.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Francis, who was expelled last year, revived his conspiracy over the legitimacy of the 2013 Francis elections, and called on the CIA to investigate what he claims was a “deep state” conspiracy for his election.
Francis knows this dynamic well.
“Some wanted me dead,” In 2021, he told the Slovaki priests in 2021, referring to what he learned while transferring to the hospital that year for intestinal surgery.
“I know that there are even meetings between the priests who believed that the Pope was worse than what was said. They were preparing in a row.”
A weak taste is publicly discussed by the highest or down in the papal bets for a future future, much less to start one planning. But separately, Rome suffers from such talks. Taxi drivers talk about this topic with passengers and doctors who suffer from patients and butchers with clients.
Currently, Francis holds.
The bulletin said on Thursday that his comprehensive clinical condition was “a little improvement” and that his heart was working well. Eat breakfast sitting on an arms chair and was working with helpers.
“There is greater transparency, but even this is incomplete,” said Christopher Pelito, professor of church history at Kane University in New Jersey.
“Certainly, every person with parents and elderly ancestors said:” This pneumonia “before the Vatican does.”
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