CNA Staff, Feb 23, 2025 / 14:10 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis’ condition “remains critical,” the Holy See Press Office said in a statement issued Sunday evening Rome time. However, it said, he experienced “no further respiratory crisis” since Saturday.
The statement also said the Holy Father “continues to be alert and well oriented” and is still receiving oxygen therapy “at high flows” through his nose. Since his situation is “complex,” the statement said, the pope’s prognosis “remains reserved.”
His blood platelet count remained stable, the statement continued, but some blood tests showed “initial, mild, renal failure” that was presently under control.
This morning the pope participated in Mass together with those caring for him at his 10th floor apartment set up at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, the statement said.
Also on Sunday, Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the cardinal vicar of the Diocese of Rome, celebrated a Mass for Pope Francis at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. The faithful prayed that the Lord would sustain the pope with his grace and fill him with strength to face his health crisis.
Earlier in the day, Archbishop Rino Fisichella delivered Pope Francis’ prepared homily to over 4,000 permanent deacons gathered for a special jubilee Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica. He also delivered from his hospital room his Sunday Angelus address, where he thanked hospital staff as well as called for peace in Ukraine.
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Prayers for Jorge Bergoglio, that he will be reconciled with Christ, that The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque) and thus the fact that “It is not possible to have Sacramental Communion without Ecclesiastical Communion”, will be affirmed, and The Papacy will be restored through the election of a valid Pope, who is in communion with Christ and His One, Holy, Catholic, And Apostolic Church, and that this validly elected Pope will consecrate Russia to Our Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Heart, exactly as Our Blessed Mother requested, affirming The Deposit Of Faith, and visibly separating the counterfeit church, with its counterfeit magisterium, from The True Church Of Christ, which exists Through Christ, With Christ, And In Christ, Oh God , Almighty Father, In The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque) Amen.
Jorge Bergoglio is the valid pope, and Russia was validly consecrated in the 1980s. Begone with your satanic conspiracy-mongering.
“But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you.” (Matt. 5:44)
Pope St. Clement I, Martyr (100) He was exiled by the emperor Trajan and cast into the sea with an anchor tied to his neck. His letter to the Corinthians is one of the most precious documents of the earliest century. He is named third in the Canon of the Mass after the apostles.