Pope Francis has apparently proven “slight improvement” and is responding nicely to ongoing oxygen remedy, in response to a press release from the Vatican.
The 88-year-old pontiff has been within the hospital since Feb. 14, when he was admitted for respiratory points that had been later discovered to be bilateral pneumonia.
Medical doctors are preserving the pope’s prognosis below wraps as they proceed to guage his situation.
Mexican painter Roberto Marquez locations a portray of Pope Francis he made exterior the Agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photograph/Gregorio Borgia)
On Thursday, the pope recorded a message thanking those that had been praying for his restoration. The recording was “clearly an effort for him,” Vatican sources mentioned, stating that the noise from the pope’s oxygen machine could possibly be heard within the audio.
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“We could hear yesterday that he was getting oxygen through the nose during audio, clearly he won’t read Angelus,” Vatican sources informed Fox Information.
Pope Francis waves to believers as he leaves the Cercle Cite after a gathering Luxembourg’s prime minister throughout a four-day apostolic journey in Luxembourg and Belgium, in Luxembourg metropolis on Sept. 26, 2024. (Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP/Getty)
Ash Wednesday additionally appeared completely different this yr, because the pope was unable to steer mass. As an alternative, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis learn the pope’s homily aloud at Rome’s Santa Sabrina Basilica.
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The pope has had an extended historical past of respiratory points. When he was simply 21 years outdated, Pope Francis had a part of his lung eliminated after growing pleurisy, which is an irritation of the membranes that cushion the lungs. Now, in response to Vatican sources, he’s persevering with remedy for bilateral pneumonia.
The Pope has been hospitalized since Feb. 14 with pneumonia and a bronchial an infection. Candles with the photographs of him are the laid below the statue of late Pope John Paul II in Rome on Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photograph/Gregorio Borgia)
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Catholics throughout the globe have prayed for Pope Francis since he was first hospitalized in February. This consists of Vice President JD Vance, who provided a prayer for the pope throughout final month’s Nationwide Prayer Breakfast.
“Every day me and my children have said a prayer for the Holy Father, and we pray for his health, and we pray for his comfort as he deals with what appears to be a pretty serious health crisis,” Vance mentioned.
