Pope Francis Suffers New Breathing Crises, Is Back On Noninvasive Ventilation | rssama.com

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis suffered 2 caller episodes of acute respiratory crises Monday and was put backmost connected noninvasive mechanical ventilation, nan Vatican said.

Francis had inhaled “copious” amounts of mucus successful different setback successful what has go a much than two-week conflict to flooded a analyzable respiratory infection and pneumonia.

In a precocious update, nan Vatican said nan episodes were caused by a “significant accumulation” of mucus successful his lungs and bronchial spasms. “Two bronchoscopies were performed pinch nan request for aspiration of copious secretions,” nan Vatican said.

Francis remained alert, oriented and cooperated pinch aesculapian personnel. The prognosis remained guarded.

Catholic religious be a nightly rosary dream for nan wellness of Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square astatine nan Vatican, Sunday, March 2, 2025.

AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy

Earlier Monday, Pope Francis issued a caller connection from nan infirmary arsenic Vatican officials begged him to fto his sound beryllium heard aft disappearing from nationalist position for complete 2 weeks arsenic he recovers.

Francis, 88, denounced nan “progressive irrelevance” of world organizations to combat warfare arsenic he remained astatine Rome’s Gemelli infirmary successful unchangeable condition. He was up, had meal and was receiving therapies aft sleeping “well each nighttime long,” nan Vatican said.

The Vatican hasn’t released immoderate photos aliases videos of Francis since earlier he entered nan infirmary connected Feb. 14 pinch a analyzable lung infection. This has go nan longest absence of his 12-year papacy.

The Vatican has provided brief, twice-daily aesculapian updates connected his condition, and Francis has begun signing disconnected connected documents pinch “From Gemelli Polyclinic” successful an denotation that he is up and working.

The Vatican has defended Francis’ determination to retrieve successful bid and retired of nan nationalist eye. But connected Monday 1 of Francis’ closest friends astatine nan Vatican, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, urged him to fto his sound beryllium heard, saying nan world needs to perceive it.

“We request men for illustration him who are genuinely cosmopolitan and not only one-sided,” Paglia said, speaking aft a property convention to motorboat nan yearly assembly of his Pontifical Academy for Life, the Vatican’s bioethics academy, which has arsenic this year’s taxable “The End of nan World?”

Francis wrote a connection to nan assembly, dated Feb. 26, successful which he lamented that world organizations are progressively ineffective to combat nan threats facing nan world and are being undermined by “short-sighted attitudes concerned pinch protecting peculiar and nationalist interests.”

It’s a taxable he has articulated before. Francis besides has many times called for bid betwixt Russia and Ukraine while trying to support nan Vatican’s accepted negotiated neutrality, and has tried to execute a akin balancing enactment for Israel’s warfare pinch Hamas successful Gaza.

Even a Vatican ambassador not particularly adjacent to Francis, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, said nan religious needed to perceive his sound astatine a clip erstwhile warfare is raging successful Europe. Gaenswein was Pope Benedict XVI’s longtime secretary, and Francis exiled him to beryllium nan Vatican ambassador successful nan Baltics aft he published a memoir successful 2023 that was captious of Francis.

“Pope Francis’ sound is of captious value for each nan world because he’s nan only authority who speaks of peace, who condemns war, each nan wars nether measurement starting pinch Ukraine,” La Repubblica quoted Gaenswein arsenic saying.

Francis’ 17-night hospitalization is by nary intends reaching nan papal grounds that was group during St. John Paul II’s galore lengthy hospitalizations complete a 4th century.

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