He’s also receiving no artificial nutrition and is requiring less supplemental oxygen than he was receiving over the weekend.
Critically ill Pope ‘slept well’, Vatican says, as thousands unite in prayer - The 88-year-old has now been in hospital for 11 days
Despite his ongoing hospitalization for treatment of what the Vatican has said is a polymicrobial respiratory infection, Pope Francis has continued calling the Catholic parish in Gaza nightly, its pastor has said.
The Vatican said Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed some work.
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of state to approve new decrees for saints and call a formal meeting to set the dates for their canonization, the Vatican said Tuesday.
Even while Pope Francis is hospitalized, he still keeps in touch with a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza City, making near-nightly phone calls to the priest and congregation there.
Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition, battling pneumonia in both lungs and early signs of kidney failure, but the Vatican reports some signs of improvement in his latest lab tests.
The Vatican has set in motion nightly prayers for Pope Francis in the hope that he might recover and get back to leading the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized since last week, was found to have pneumonia following a CT scan on Tuesday, the Vatican said, with tests continuing to indicate “a complex picture” for one of the oldest popes in the church’s history.
Pope Francis showed slight improvement in laboratory tests Monday and resumed some work activities, including calling a parish in Gaza City that he has kept in touch with since the war there began, the Vatican said.
Pope Francis continues to call Gaza’s Holy Family parish every night, despite battling pneumonia, to offer prayers and support. He has been vocal about the crisis in Gaza. With no clear progress in ceasefire talks,