Vatican City – Pope Francis remained Critical but stable state Tuesday evening, with his blood parameters remaining stable while working from the hospital while fighting double pneumonia, said the Vatican.
The Vatican update said that the 88 -year -old Pope had undergone a monitoring cat scan on Tuesday evening to check the pulmonary infection. But that has provided no details on what the scan has shown, suggesting that the results were not yet back. The doctors said he hadn’t had other respiratory crises and that his prognosis was kept.
“In the morning, after receiving the Eucharist, he resumed the work activities”, The Vatican Declaration said.
Sources of the Vatican said that the pope’s state had remained the same Tuesday morning as the day before and that he had been able to get out of bed and have breakfast alone.
The Vatican said that the Pope was sufficient to meet the Secretary of State of the Vatican to approve new decrees for the possible saints. This suggested that he gets an essential work and looks forward despite his hospitalization in critical condition.
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The Vatican Tuesday midday bulletin contained a series of important decisions, especially since Francis had met Cardinal Pietro Parolin and the Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, the “replacement” of the Vatican or the chief of staff. It was the first time known that the Pope had met Parolin, who is essentially the Prime Minister of the Vatican, since his hospitalization of February 14.
During the public, Francis approved decrees for two new saints and five people for beatification – the first step towards possible holiness. Francis also decided to “summon a consistory on future canonizations”.
Francis regularly approves decrees of the Vatican Saints Manufacturing Office when he is in the Vatican, although during the public with the chef of the office, not the Paroline. A consistory, which is an official meeting of cardinals, to fix the dates of canonizations is a necessary ceremony stage in this process of manufacturing saints, but the announcement was also prospective, given its illness.
No date has been set for the meeting. But it is also in an ordinary consistory to set dates for canonizations on February 11, 2013, that Pope Benedict XVI announced, in Latin, that He would resign Because he couldn’t follow the rigors of the papacy. Francis said he was also planning to resign after Benedict “opened the door” and became the first pope in 600 years to retire.
In addition to the public with Parolin, the Vatican published Francis’ message for Lent, the period leading to Easter, in another sign turned forward. In a subsequent bulletin, Francis has appointed a handful of new bishops for Brazil, a new archbishop for Vancouver and modified the law so that the state of the city of Vatican can create a new hierarchy.
Many, if not all, these decisions were probably in progress for a while. But the Vatican said that Francis had done work in the hospital, including the signing of the documents.
Tuesday morning, the typical morning update of the Vatican said: “The Pope slept well, all night.”
The doctors said on Monday evening that he had stayed in critical condition with double pneumonia, but reported a “slight improvement” in certain laboratory results. In the most optimistic bulletin for days, they said that he had resumed the work of his hospital room, calling a parish in Gaza City with which he had been in contact since the war began.
After the night, the thousands of followers gathered on a square in Saint-Pierre soaked and soaked in rain for the first of a night recitation of the Rosary. Prayer spoke of the 2005 watches when St. John Paul II was dying in the apostolic palace, but those who said they prayed for the restoration of Francis.
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Standing on the same stage where Francis usually presides over, the Secretary of State of the Vatican said that since Francis had been hospitalized, a prayer choir for his recovery had swollen from the whole world.
“From tonight, we want to unite this prayer publicly here, in his house,” said Parolin, praying that Francis “at this time of illness and trial” is recovering quickly.
The Argentinian pope had been part of a lung withdrawn as a young man, and the doctors said that his condition was touch and Go, given his age, his fragility and his pre -existing pulmonary disease.
But in the update on Monday, they said that he had no longer had respiratory crises Since Saturday and the flow and additional oxygen concentration have been slightly reduced. THE slight renal failure Detected Sunday did not provoke the alarm for the moment, the doctors said, while saying that his prognosis has remained kept.
However, the atmosphere was especially dark in the monumental square, with many of the approximately 4,000 assembled understanding that they can be in Rome for the last days of Francis. Crows were seated under umbrellas on folding chairs or stood near the vast colonnades as they thought with emotion on the heritage of the pontiff.
“To see him suffer from evil,” said Robert Pietro, a Romanian seminarian who was standing at prayer holding a small candle scented in homage. “But we also pray in Thanksgiving for what he did for the church.”
Roberto Allison, a priest of the Mexican state of Guadalajara, said that members of his community had gathered to show their appreciation for “everything we learned from him”.
Stopping to offer personal blessings to some at the end of the ceremony, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said that the diversity of the crowd – many world languages could be heard – was “a great sign of comfort” for the Catholic church.
Some Catholic tourists from Chicago, who arrived by holding umbrellas long before the start of the service, said they had prayed for the pope on a daily basis earlier at the Saint-Pierre basilica and decided to return. Like many, they had a hard time treating ”, they can be in Rome for the last days of Francis.
“No one knows the day and time, but it’s a historic moment, however,” said Edward Burjek.
It seemed the same for Hatzumi Villanueva from Peru. She particularly liked the former Pope St. John Paul II, but said that Francis, as the first Latin American Pope, “is a bit like”.
“We came to pray for the Pope, so that he could soon recover, for the great mission he shares with his message of peace,” said Villanueva, who praised his empathy for migrants.
Francis’ papacy also underlined the defense of the environment and partial Opening to LGBTQ + rights.
Apart from the Vatican, the Romans, pilgrims and even non-Catholics said they offered special prayers for the hospitalized pope.
“We are all sorry,” said Raniero Mancinelli, who has ceremonial clothes for Francis and the two previous popes in her shop just outside the Vatican walls.
Elisabetta Zumbo transported a 5-foot long cross on a curly section of the street leading to Saint-Pierre while she was preparing to lead a group of 34 pilgrims in the city of the north of Italy of Piacenza. With the flowing rain, she promised her group would pray intensely for the Pope.
“There is a lot of emotion and a lot of sadness,” said Zumbo.
Nearby, a London couple visiting St. Peter’s with their son said that even if they are not Catholic, they felt near the pontiff “being there at home” in the monumental basilica.