The Vatican city is a worrying place. Clergy maintain their cell phone with pillows. Reporters open a terrifying email packed in the holy See Press Office. The faithful began to gather in anticipation of St. Peter's Square.
We are waiting for brief breaking news from the Vatican in Pope Francis' state. He is still critical after being taken to hospital with bronchitis that developed pneumonia in both lungs 11 days ago. On Monday afternoon, hours before the Vatican reported “slight improvements,” Vatican authorities' mobile phones were bustling with texts misreporting Francis' death.
Francis, who is currently having the onset of kidney failure and infections, may still recover. On Tuesday night, the Vatican said Francis was in a “critical but stable.” The Vatican said in its evening medical bulletin it had undergone follow-up CT scans in the afternoon to confirm pulmonary infections and resumed “work activities” in the morning.
Pope's transition veterans, daily health bulletins, global media influx, ramp-stretched speculation and special prayer services have a familiar, ominous feeling.
“These are delicate moments,” said Devan Corredor, a 27-year-old seminary from Columbia, who came to St. Peters Square on Monday night to pray for Francis' rosary. Please appeal to “pray for me.”
The seminary supported Francis during the prayer service on Christmas Eve, saying that he saw him not only deeply tired, but also in peace. “I don't think it's going to be long. I think he's preparing for a moment of tranquility, knowing this is the end of his life.”
On a damp Monday evening, Cardinal of the Vatican, Pietro Parolin, took on Francis' place of thousands of faithful figures in front of the Cathedral of St. Peter. It's a speculation fixture that is likely to replace it. Rosary prayer for the Pope's health.
Under the intermittent drizzle, the cardinal kneeled in front of the portrait of Madonna and the child, addressing the crowd.
“For two thousand years, Christians have prayed for the Pope when they get dangerous or sick,” says Cardinal Parolin, “at this illness and the moment of trial” when they pray for Francis He added that he has come.
Francis is the 266th Pope, heading the Roman Catholic Church, and most of the church's history is that the death of the Pope is powerful, especially when the Pope ruled the large lands directly and indirectly by the monarchy. It can change the destiny of a nobleman. It changes the direction of a powerful state and determines where the church holds its headquarters.
“The turbulence that follows the death of the Pope today is unparalleled from centuries ago,” said church historian Agostino Palavishini Bagriani. He said that the death of the Pope would be kept secret for fear that the Pope's death, or sometimes even the Roman population, could plunder the Apostle Palace. “The Pope's death caused all sorts of problems.”
In modern times, the transition has been carried out more smoothly, long after the Pope lost his temporary power. Nowadays, changes at the top are unlikely to have a geopolitical impact, while having a major impact on the color of the church's priorities, vision and ideology. Yet, the Pope's final days attract pilgrims and news media from all over the world to Rome, and they focus their followers' attention on their spiritual leaders.
The Cardinals said that before Pope John XIII's death in 1963, the Rosary was held in a similar prayer session at St. Peter's Square in 2005 when the Vatican Secretary of State Leonardo Sandrial died of Pope John Paul. It has been announced that it has been announced. II After the last day of suffering.
The once violent Pope suffered from Parkinson's disease for a long time. He lost the ability to speak clearly and seemed to have often been accused. His health failures have been the subject of pathological attention for years.
“It was so strange,” said Father Paul Alger, a 42-year-old priest from Augusta, Georgia, who studied theology in Rome and recalled that year as a clock to the death of the perennial Pope.
Francis initially speculated that he had a short pope, but instead led the church to dozens of eventful and busy years. During his first few years he crossed the world, met with world leaders, and played an active role in defending the issues he cared most, particularly on behalf of immigrants and marginalised. .
However, bad knees and sciatica have recently begun to physically slow Francis down. He began to rely on canes, walkers, and wheelchairs.
Francis had colon surgery in 2021 and again after two years of surgery due to hernias that developed for that surgery. Throughout, he maintained a strict schedule, but his breathing became disgusting as he struggled with respiratory infections and now pneumonia explosions and infection explosions.
The faithful clergy and clergy attending Monday preferred to focus on Francis' life rather than what seemed like an end. Bishop Manuel Nin, the exa arch of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, ultimately called sticking to what is in “the hand of God” “unhealthy.”
However, some clerics were worried that this latest recession could be Francis' last.
“He says good night, he's resting, but at the same time it's clear that his prognosis is not good,” said Bishop Earl Fernandez of Columbus, Ohio. “It's the beginning of the end.”
Bishop Fernandez said he follows “news about the Pope in multiple languages ​​every day.” .
“It would kill him in itself,” the bishop added.
Solle permeated the square of St. Peter, rain smoothed out the cobblestone stones, and faithful chants made a call to the Virgin Mary. A pair of swoosh seagulls came to caw. In the surrounding palaces, private speculations about who began on Francis' behalf, ideological camps took shape. However, the event provided a public forum for church leaders, all political persuasion, and gathered the Popes when he needed them.
Among the cardins next to the Parolin Cardinal on the steps of St. Peter's Cathedral on Monday evenings frequently appear on a short list of Francis' replacements, including the Philippine Cardinal's Luis Antonio Tagle. did. However, there were also Cardinals who Francis collided with for ten years. These include the American Cardinal Raymond Burke, the de facto leader of opposition to the Pope's agenda.
“When someone is dying, it's all said and it's over,” Father Alger compared the church to the family gathering around his dying father, regardless of his split at home. “He is the Holy Father, and he is in trouble. There is a way to make clear what is important.”
