Pope Francis celebrates anniversary in the hospital: bubbling with resignation!

Pope Francis celebrates anniversary in the hospital: bubbling with resignation!

The sick Pope Francis celebrates his twelfth anniversary in office under difficult conditions: instead of in a festive framework, he spends the day in the Gemelli Clinic in Rome, where he recovered from serious pneumonia. He has been in the hospital for almost a month, and to mark this special time, he was given a cake with candles by the clinic staff. According to the Vatican, the Pope perceived the day with breathing exercises and asked and even followed the fasting extent of the Roman Curia, which continued until Friday. The celebrations to celebrate his pontificate were nevertheless overshadowed by the serious nature of his illness, as krone.at reported.

health challenges and possible withdrawal rumors

Francis receives oxygen during the day and is constantly ventilated at night. However, an X-ray image carried out on Tuesday has shown a positive tendency: the health status of the 88-year-old seems to have stabilized after he had gone through a respiratory crisis a few days ago. The Italian bishop Giuseppe Baturi commented on the speculation that the Pope for health reasons according to the example of his predecessor Benedict XVI. could resign. "This is a possibility, but it depends on the Pope's conscience," says Baturi. The Vatican Curia warmly congratulated the Pope for the anniversary, such as reported.

Franziskus, who was the first Jesuit and the first Latin American to be pope, has been managed by 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide since March 2013. With his age of 88, he is the second highest Pope in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. While the trade fair, which was celebrated in the clinic in honor of his anniversary, he received recovery requests from all over the world, but also proved himself strong and persistent in his faith while he continues to drive his recovery.