2023-05-26 19:46:05
Pope Francis86, canceled his commitments this Friday due to a feverish state and fatigue, the Vatican reported.
“Due to a feverish state, Pope Francis did not receive in audience this morning”, declared the spokesman for the Holy See, Matteo Bruni, without specifying what the agenda of the Argentine pontiff was.
“The Pope was tired, yesterday (Thursday, May 25) he had a very busy day, he saw a lot of people, he held the meeting of the Scholas Occurrentes school system and wanted to greet everyone. The resistance weakens at some point.”later explained Cardinal Pietro Parolin, number two of the Holy See, quoted by the Italian agency Time.news.
This cancellation of activities occurs two months after Francisco’s hospitalization for three days in Rome, due to pneumonia that he managed to overcome with a treatment based on antibiotics.
The pontiff confided on Thursday to the Spanish-speaking television Telemundo that pneumonia was “treated in time”but that in a few more hours the picture “would have been more serious.”
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He also told that feels “much better” from knee pain that force him to move in a wheelchair or with a cane.
“I can now walk, the knee has been fixed. There are days when it is more painful, like today, and days when it is not. But it is part of the development, ”she completed.
Returning from Hungary at the end of April, Francisco expressed his willingness to continue traveling. In fact, he plans to attend the World Youth Days (WYD) in Lisbon from August 2 to 6 and travel to the French city of Marseille in September. Later, he faces a trip to Mongolia.
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The state of health of Jorge Bergoglio, elected head of the Catholic Church in 2013, regularly fuels speculation about his eventual resignation.
a fragile health
Despite his advanced age, Francisco maintains a tight rhythm of meetings and receives on average up to ten people per day. The head of the Catholic Church plans to preside over the Pentecost mass and the Regina Coeli prayer from the Vatican on Sunday.
Francisco dedicates the morning hours to the audiences that he grants in the Vatican to representatives of associations, religious groups and heads of state; in the afternoons, he works on his documents or holds private meetings.
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On Thursday he received representatives of the nuns, of the Italian Episcopal Conference and was with a group of young people de la red educative Meeting Schools
On several occasions, Francis evoked the possibility of resigning, as his predecessor Benedict XVI did in 2013, who died in December 2022. He maintained that it was not a taboo subject, although clarifying that he ruled out taking that step for the moment.
In July 2021, Francisco was hospitalized for ten days for a colon operation, that left him “aftermath”, according to what he said. Because of this, he rules out undergoing a new knee surgery, as the doctors advise.
During an interview in January, revealed that he suffers from diverticulitis, an inflammation of the diverticula, hernias or bags that form on the walls of the digestive system.
The pope is constantly monitored by a team of nurses, both in the Vatican and during his travels. A necessary measure due to his medical history, which he initiated at the age of 21 when due to acute pleurisy he underwent a partial ablation of the right lung.
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