Pope Francis He had a “good night” as he continued to rest at the Gemelli hospital for his third week of treatment of double pneumonia, Vatican said early Thursday.
“The night has passed quietly; the Pope is still resting,” he said in the Office of the Holy View in a statement published on X, adding that the papa’s “clinical condition remained stable for the last few days, and his doctors say he had no more episodes of respiratory insufficiency.”
The 88-year-old Pope, who has chronic lung disease and part of one lung removed as a young man, was stable two days after suffering a couple Respiratory crisis on Monday. The doctors underwent that his prognosis remained guarded because of a complex image.
Pope Francis waved from the central loggia basilica of St. Peter during the Easter message ‘Urbi et orbi’ and blessings to the City and the world as part of the Great Week celebration, in the Vatican 31 March 2024. (Titian Fabi/Pool/AFP/Getty)
In recent days he has slept with a non -invasive mechanical mask to guarantee that his lungs are spreading properly overnight and helping in recovery. During the day it switches to the oxygen receiving with the nasal tube.
The Pope marked the beginning of Lent on Wednesday by receiving ash at the forehead and calling the parish priest in Gaza, Vatican said. He also added physical therapy to his hospital routine respiratory therapy.
Catholic Church He opened a festive Lent season without the pope. The Cardinal took his place leading a short criminal procession between the two churches on the Aventine hill and opened a sermon on Wednesday to the ashes prepared for the Pope with the words of solidarity and thanks.
Girls, with ashes at the helm, pray during the prayer of the Rosary for the health of Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
On Wednesday, observation Catholics get a sign of a cross in the ashes at the forehead, a gesture that emphasizes human mortality. It is a mandatory day of fasting and abstinence that signals the beginning of the most important season of Christianity, leading to Easter 20. April.
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The pope was to attend the spiritual withdrawal this weekend with the rest of the Hydrogen hierarchy. The Vatican said on Tuesday that the retreat would go forward without Francis, but in the “spiritual community” with him. The topic, chosen before Francis became ill, was “hope in eternal life.”
Mexican painter Roberto Marquez sets the picture of Pope Francis, which he made outside the agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome on Wednesday in Ash. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Associated Press contributed to this report.
