ROME and LONDON — Pope Francis on Sunday spent his twenty fourth consecutive day within the hospital receiving remedy and getting an replace on world and church affairs, the Vatican’s press workplace mentioned in a short assertion.
“The night time was quiet, the pope is resting,” the Holy See mentioned Sunday morning.
Catholic worshippers pray throughout a prayer of the Rosary for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Sq. at The Vatican, Saturday, March 8, 2025.
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The Vatican mentioned Sunday night time that the pope’s situation stays “steady.” However his “total state of affairs stays complicated, prompting medical doctors to take care of a guarded prognosis.”
The pope took half in mass Sunday morning within the chapel in his Tenth-floor residence in Gemelli hospital, the Vatican mentioned. On Sunday night, the pope watched dwell protection of the primary day of Religious Workouts for Lent for the Roman curia held within the Paul VI Viewers Corridor within the Vatican.
The Vatican mentioned Pope Francis additionally continued his remedy Sunday and underwent motor and respiratory physiotherapy.
“His air flow continues to change from the day use of high-flow to anti-invasive mechanical air flow at night time,” in line with the Vatican assertion.
The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and the substitute for basic affairs of the secretary of state, Archbishop Penna Parra, visited the Pope within the hospital to replace him on church and world issues on Sunday, in line with the Vatican.
Officers with the Catholic Church, which the pope has led since 2013, mentioned on Saturday that the 88-year-old pontiff had demonstrated a very good response to remedy.
A Catholic nun holding {a photograph} of Pope Francis prays prior a prayer of the Rosary for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Sq. at The Vatican, Saturday, March 8, 2025.
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“The medical doctors, hoping to report these preliminary enhancements within the coming days, are prudently conserving the prognosis as nonetheless guarded,” the Vatican mentioned.
Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14 and was identified with bilateral pneumonia.
Earlier Sunday, the pope launched the textual content of his Angelus handle, or weekly handle, thanking the medical doctors and nurses caring for him. He additionally prayed for the many individuals all over the world who’re enduring sickness, in line with the Vatican.
“Throughout my extended hospitalization right here,” the pope mentioned, “I too expertise the thoughtfulness of service and the tenderness of care, specifically from the medical doctors and healthcare employees, whom I thank from the underside of my coronary heart.”
