{"id":8058,"date":"2025-02-22T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-francis-put-church-above-his-health-vatican-observers-say\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:43:53","slug":"pope-francis-put-church-above-his-health-vatican-observers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-francis-put-church-above-his-health-vatican-observers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Put Church Above His Health, Vatican Observers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the days after the Vatican announced on Feb. 6 that Pope Francis had bronchitis and would be restricting his activities to his residence, he proceeded to hold multiple private audiences a day with groups of nuns, pilgrims and leaders of foundations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Feb. 9, he presided over an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/it\/events\/event.dir.html\/content\/vaticanevents\/it\/2025\/2\/9\/angelus.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">outdoor Mass in St. Peter\u2019s Square<\/a>, where the wind was so strong that it blew his white zucchetto off his head. He could not finish his homily, passing it to an aide and saying, \u201cI have trouble breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Three days later, at his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/it\/events\/event.dir.html\/content\/vaticanevents\/it\/2025\/2\/12\/udienza-generale.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">weekly Wednesday audience<\/a>, the ailing pope had an aide read his speech. But then he shook hands with dozens of prelates, many leaning over to whisper greetings, and took photos with Spanish faithful, Milanese military recruits and nuns from Mother Teresa\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two days after that, Francis was rushed to the hospital, with what doctors said was a complex medical condition that evolved into pneumonia in both his lungs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many who know him said in interviews that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially worked himself into the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He is now bedridden after weeks of ceremonies and audiences \u2014 both private and public \u2014 that only intensified with the start in December of the 2025 Jubilee, a year of faith, penance and forgiveness of sins that takes place only every quarter century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the pope\u2019s grueling schedule \u2014 which would exhaust anyone, let alone an 88-year-old with a series of health issues \u2014 is in keeping with Francis\u2019 personality and with his vision of the papacy, say doctors, biographers and Vatican observers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe pope cares a lot about the Church, so it\u2019s clear he put the Church first,\u201d Dr. Luigi Carbone, the pope\u2019s personal physician at the Vatican, told reporters at a briefing at the hospital on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Sergio Alfieri, another one of the pope\u2019s doctors, added that \u201che doesn\u2019t hold back because he is enormously generous, so he tired himself out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francis became pope late in life \u2014 he was 76 \u2014 and was determined to make the most of it because he suspected that, relatively speaking, he would not hold the position for long. A year into his papacy, he told reporters that he thought he would be pope for two or three years, then \u201coff to the house of the Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That prediction was clearly wrong. Instead, he established a schedule \u2014 waking up before 5 and at his desk by 6 to tackle a full day of work \u2014 that Nelson Castro, the author of the book \u201cThe Health of Popes,\u201d called \u201ccrazy.\u201d Just last September, Francis took the longest and most complicated trip of his tenure: an 11-day, four-country <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/02\/world\/asia\/pope-francis-asia-trip.html\" title=\"\">tour in the Asia-Pacific region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFor Francis, it\u2019s all or nothing,\u201d said Austen Ivereigh, a Catholic commentator and papal biographer. In Francis\u2019 view, it was \u201can essential dimension of the papacy\u201d that people had constant access to him, and there was no time to be inaccessible for health reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHis primary concern isn\u2019t to extend his life, his primary concern is to exercise the papal ministry in the way that he believes it must be exercised, which is all in, 100 percent,\u201d Mr. Ivereigh said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe has a crazy agenda,\u201d said another biographer, the Argentine journalist, Elisabetta Piqu\u00e9. Alongside his official morning schedule, he has a parallel, equally full agenda for the afternoon. \u201cHe always says, I\u2019ll have time to rest in the next world,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francis had a deep-seated sense of duty that was instilled in him by the boarding school he attended as a child, run by the Salesian religious congregation, and later by the Jesuit order which he joined in 1958, said Fabio Marchese Ragona, another biographer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said that Francis had told him that he had joined the Jesuits \u201cabove all for the discipline,\u201d and that keeping commitments was drilled into him \u2014 as was arriving early for appointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlo Musso, who worked with Francis on \u201cHope,\u201d an autobiography that was published last month, noted: \u201cThe word he used most, the exhortation I remember best, is \u2018forward.\u2019 Even when he was looking back, it was so he could move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People who know Francis say that he is resistant to taking a break, even when he should because of sciatica, a bad knee or recurrent bronchial woes. As a young man, he had the upper lobe of his right lung removed, and he has suffered bouts of influenza and bronchitis during the winter months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s so obstinate; he\u2019s a testardo,\u201d said Dr. Castro, using the Italian word for stubborn. And the pope has admitted to being \u201ca very difficult patient,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pope once told him that he liked to keep his distance from doctors, Dr. Castro said, \u201cmeaning that he wants to make the decisions\u201d about what he can and cannot do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Ivereigh said that Francis had admitted that one of his \u201cbig faults\u201d was obstinacy. \u201cHe\u2019s very strong willed and doesn\u2019t readily listen to suggestions that he cut things back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musso pointed out that a few hours before he was taken to hospital, Francis held audiences with the prime minister of the Slovak Republic, the president of CNN and representatives of a charity that works in Puerto Rico. \u201cHe has an enormous capacity for work,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pope does not go away for summer vacations, Mr. Musso added. That habit, said Ms. Piqu\u00e9, is a source of chagrin for many Vatican employees. His last real vacation was in 1975, Francis himself said in his autobiography \u201cHope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI summered at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, though the former also opted for mountain stays in northern Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francesco Antonio Grana, a Vatican reporter for the Rome daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, said it did not help that Francis surrounded himself with \u201cyes men\u201d who indulged the pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis hospitalization could have been avoided\u201d had someone put the brakes on the pope\u2019s schedule, Mr. Grana said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI prefer a live pope than a pope who died because he kept one more commitment on his agenda,\u201d he added. \u201cWith Donald Trump in the White House, the world needs a live and combative pope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The same week that he went into the hospital, Francis <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/11\/world\/europe\/pope-trump-immigration-deportations.html\" title=\"\">wrote an open letter to bishops<\/a> in the United States criticizing President Trump\u2019s policy of mass deportations of immigrants, and he has stood up to Mr. Trump on issues like climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francis\u2019 workload was not only arduous but also brought him into contact with hundreds of people who could potentially transmit diseases, said Massimo Andreoni, professor emeritus of infectious diseases at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. \u201cSo perhaps he should be more careful when he has a cold or bronchitis and maybe slow down a little and look after himself a little more,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There are a few signs that the pope may be ready to slow down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francis was visited in the hospital on Wednesday by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy. Reporting on the meeting, the Milan daily newspaper Corriere della Sera wrote that Francis complained to the prime minister: \u201cThe doctors said I have to take some time off\u201d and that \u201cI have to be careful with my health, otherwise I go straight to heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a news briefing on Friday, Francis\u2019 doctors made clear they would keep him at the hospital as long as he needed treatment that he could only receive there, rather than bring him home to his residence in Casa Santa Marta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe think it\u2019s prudent,\u201d said Dr. Alfieri. \u201cIf we brought him to Santa Marta, he\u2019d start working like before, we know this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 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