{"id":9038,"date":"2025-02-26T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/popes-illness-is-surrounded-by-intrigue-over-possible-resignation\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T23:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:00:35","slug":"popes-illness-is-surrounded-by-intrigue-over-possible-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/popes-illness-is-surrounded-by-intrigue-over-possible-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope\u2019s Illness Is Surrounded by Intrigue Over Possible Resignation"},"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\">Earlier this week, two top Vatican officials made a secret visit to see Pope Francis in the hospital. At first, the Vatican said it had no information about the meeting but then confirmed it, explaining the two prelates had come to secure the pope\u2019s signature to move forward on assembling cardinals to approve new saints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Veterans of decades of Vatican intrigues weren\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cVery, very strange,\u201d said<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/andreasenglisch.de\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> Andreas Englisch<\/a>, a German journalist and author who has covered the Vatican for nearly 40 years, and who said the meeting immediately set off alarm bells because neither of the two officials worked on canonization issues. Stranger still, he said, was that Francis\u2019 predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, announced his resignation at the same meeting of cardinals, called a consistory, that was also discussing the canonization of saints a dozen years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s the wrong guys for the wrong thing,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was obvious that something was not as it seemed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The visit, the tantalizing echo of the forum of Benedict\u2019s resignation and what some church watchers consider a clunky cover story about what Francis and his aides really discussed, has only fueled speculation that Francis, who has been out of the public eye for nearly two weeks amid terse medical reports about his health crisis, may be weighing resignation.<\/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\">His supporters shrug it off as idle chatter. The important thing, they say, is to focus on the pope\u2019s health, which the Vatican said on Wednesday evening has shown \u201ca slight further improvement over the past 24 hours.\u201d Francis\u2019s blood tests confirmed an improvement and that a mild kidney insufficiency had subsided. A CT scan of the pope\u2019s chest carried out Tuesday to monitor his pneumonia in both lungs showed a normal progression of the lung inflammation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDespite the slight improvement, his prognosis remains guarded,\u201d the Vatican said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The possibility of resignation is not an option many would have even considered before 2013, when Benedict<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/12\/world\/europe\/pope-benedict-xvi-says-he-will-retire.html\" title=\"\"> became the first pontiff to retire in nearly 600 years<\/a>, changing the perception of the papacy from a lifetime mission to a more earthly calling, subject to political pressures and health assessments when modern medicine can keep patients alive much longer. If Francis were also to resign, he would help normalize what Dante once called \u201cthe great refusal,\u201d and divide the church into pre-Benedict and post-Benedict eras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Whether there is any fire behind this week\u2019s apparent smoke screen of a meeting, or if Francis is even thinking about resigning is unknown to perhaps but a few of his closest allies, and probably not even them. Once again close watchers of the church are left studying shadows on the Vatican walls and Francis\u2019s biography for hints of what he might do.<\/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\"> \u201cAs I know him, he wouldn\u2019t want a major degenerative condition to be a distraction from the papacy so it then becomes the focus of everything,\u201d said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.campion.ox.ac.uk\/people\/dr-austen-ivereigh\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Austen Ivereigh<\/a>, the pope\u2019s biographer, who stressed he had no idea of Francis\u2019 plans. \u201cFor Francis what is absolutely essential is that he has freedom.\u201d<\/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\">To that end, planning an upcoming, though notably undated, meeting with Rome\u2019s cardinals about canonizations keeps an open-ended option for Francis, church watchers say, should he decide that his prognosis going forward does not allow him to fulfill his duties as he sees fit. Overcoming his crisis and exiting the phase of fighting for his life could allow the pope to focus more on what he thinks is best for the church. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the past, Vatican watchers have seen retirement plans in an unexpected move to make new cardinals, or in a visit, like Benedict before him, to an Italian town with a connection to a Medieval pope who called it quits. Last week, one <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2025\/02\/21\/in-vaticano-e-partita-loperazione-biden-convincere-il-papa-a-dimettersi-per-il-bene-della-chiesa-tra-pressioni-e-fazioni-la-diffidenza-di-bergoglio\/7885980\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Italian paper<\/a> reported on what it dubbed an \u201c\u2018Operation Biden\u2019\u201d to Convince the Pope to Quit \u2018For the Good of the Church.\u2019\u201d<\/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\">Many church observers who have spent years watching Francis doubt that he would quit, especially from the hospital, which would generate all kinds of conspiracies \u2014 in a gossipy world highly prone to conspiracies \u2014 about whether he was coerced. Mr. Englisch, for example, didn\u2019t necessarily subscribe to the idea that Francis would quit in the same way as Benedict, in a consistory of cardinals about new saints.<\/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\">\u201cIt\u2019s too perfect to be true,\u201d he said. What seemed more likely to him was that even from his hospital bed Francis continued to use unpredictability as a governing style to keep a Vatican bureaucracy he doesn\u2019t trust off balance. \u201cHe wants to send a signal,\u201d Mr. Englisch said.<\/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\">What that signal meant was an open question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDid the Pope call a consistory to resume work or to resign?\u201d read a headline on the Catholic news website <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2025\/02\/26\/did-the-pope-call-a-consistory-to-resume-work-or-to-resign\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Aleteia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Whatever the answer, clerics who want Francis to stay or go have been sending their own signals since the pope entered the hospital 12 days ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The talk of resignation was \u201cuseless speculation,\u201d Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican\u2019s secretary of state and the pope\u2019s second-in-command, and one of the officials who visited him apparently to talk about new saints, said in an interview last week with the Corriere della Sera, Italy\u2019s leading daily. \u201cNow we are thinking about the Holy Father\u2019s health, his recovery, his return to the Vatican: these are the only things that matter.\u201d<\/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\">The Vatican<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/it\/papa\/news\/2025-02\/parolin-speculazioni-dimissioni-papa-fernandez-no-pressioni.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CMi%20sembrano%20tutte%20inutili%20speculazioni,le%20uniche%20cose%20che%20contano%E2%80%9D.\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> republished<\/a> those remarks, as well as those by another close adviser to Francis, the Argentine cardinal V\u00edctor Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense that some groups put pressure on the pope to resign,\u201d he told La Naci\u00f3n. \u201cThey have done it various times in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The resignation parlor game is not a new one at the Vatican, and Francis himself has often taken part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2022, he revealed that, like popes before him, he had written a letter offering his resignation were he to become incapacitated. But it remains unknown what criteria Francis set. <\/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\">He subsequently told Jesuits in Congo that he didn\u2019t think \u201cresigning popes should become, let\u2019s say, a \u2018fashion,\u2019 a normal thing\u201d and added that he believed \u201cthe pope\u2019s ministry is \u2018ad vitam,\u2019\u201d or for life. \u201cI see no reason why it should not be so.\u201d He later<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/exclusive-pope-francis-denies-he-is-planning-resign-soon-2022-07-04\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> added<\/a> that the idea of resignation \u201cnever entered my mind. For the moment, no.\u201d<\/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\">But now we are in a different moment. And there are gray areas of church law about who runs the church if a pontiff slips into a coma, or otherwise loses consciousness for a long period. The bar for resignation is that it be tendered \u201cfreely and properly manifested,\u201d but it\u2019s not clear when a pope loses that freedom, or whether Francis\u2019s letter would even be valid if he could not freely and properly manifest his resignation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said last week that \u201cthere is no question\u201d that Francis could resign if he lost the ability to have \u201cdirect contact, as he loves doing, or to communicate in an immediate, direct, incisive and decisive way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another prelate, Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, the archbishop of Marseille, who often appears on lists of potential popes, allowed last week that when it came to retirement, \u201ceverything is possible.\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<!-- 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<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/26\/world\/europe\/pope-francis-resignation-illness.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, two top Vatican officials made a secret visit to see Pope Francis in the hospital. 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