Pope Francis still in the critical state of 10th day of hospitalization, says the Vatican, binding the longest of its papacy

Rome – Pope Francis resting on Monday morning after quiet night 10. A day of his hospitalization due to a complex lung infection that caused The early stages of kidney failuresaid the Vatican.

A single line statement did not say if Francis, 88, woke up. “The night went well, the pope slept and rests,” it was said.

His condition has come to life the speculation of what might happen if he becomes unconscious or otherwise unable to resign.

Late on Sunday, doctors reported that blood tests showed early kidney failure that is still under control. They said Francis remained in a critical state but that he no longer experienced respiratory crises from Saturday.

He received the high flow of additional oxygen and was awake on Sunday, reacted and attended mass. They said his forecast was kept.

Doctors said Francis’s state of touch and initial with respect to his age, fragility and existing lung diseases. They warned that the main threat with which Francis faces sepsis, a serious blood infection that can occur as a complication of pneumonia.

To date, it has not been related to any start of the sepsis in the medical updates provided by the Vatican, including Sunday.

On Monday, Francis’s tenth day is celebrated at the hospital, which equated the longest hospitalization of his papacy. He spent 10 days at the Gemelli 2021 hospital in Rome after a 13 -centimeter colon was removed.

In New York, on Sunday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan admitted what church leaders in Rome do not say publicly: that Catholic believers are united “by the bed of a dying father.”

“As our holy father Pope Francis is in very, very fragile health and probably close to death,” Dolan said in his homily from the pulpit of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, although he later told reporters to hope and begged that Francis was “bounced back.”