{"id":2217,"date":"2025-02-23T19:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2025-02-23T19:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:08:57","slug":"pope-in-critical-condition-says-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"Pope in critical condition, says Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Catholic Pope Francis is in critical condition after suffering a long asthmatic crisis that required high flows of oxygen, the Vatican has said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Holy Father\u2019s condition remains critical. The Pope is not out of danger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Holy Father continues to be alert and spent the day in an armchair even if he was suffering more than yesterday. At the moment the prognosis is reserved,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the doctors said Francis was not out of danger and that the main threat facing him would be the onset of sepsis, a serious infection of blood that can occur as a complication of pneumonia.<\/p>\n

Head of Medicine and Surgery at Rome\u2019s Gemelli Hospital, Dr Sergio Afieri, said on Friday that \u201cSepsis, with the respiratory problem and his age, would be really difficult to get out of. The English say \u2018knock on wood,\u2019 we say \u2018touch iron.\u2019 Everyone touches what they want. But this is the real risk in these cases: that these germs pass to the bloodstream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Francis, 88, has been in hospital at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic since February 14 for treatment of bronchitis, which has impacted on his ability to speak.<\/p>\n

In a statement then, the Vatican said the pope was admitted to the hospital \u201cfor necessary diagnostic tests and to continue hospital treatment for his ongoing bronchitis.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNN had reported that prior to his admission, Francis met his morning audiences at the Vatican but \u201cwas mentally alert but struggling to speak for extended periods due to breathing difficulties.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Catholic head has suffered from health complications in recent years. He had surgeries twice in 2021 and 2023 just as he has longstanding knee problems that make\u00a0him use a wheelchair. In 2023, he spent three nights in hospital.<\/p>\n

Francis, who has been head of Roman Catholic for 12 years, has, however, downplayed his battle with health, blaming it on his old age.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is, quite simply, that I am old,\u201d he said in his autobiography last month.<\/p>\n

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  Catholic Pope Francis is in critical condition after suffering a long asthmatic crisis that required high flows of oxygen, the Vatican has said. \u201cThe Holy Father\u2019s condition remains critical. The Pope is not out of danger. \u201cThe Holy Father continues to be alert and spent the day in an armchair even if he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}