Pope Francis is still hospitalized this Monday, February 24. Yet another bad news came to blacken the painting: the sovereign pontiff suffers from renal failure. His condition is always judged as “critical”.
The essentials:
- Pope Francis has been hospitalized since February 14, 2025. This Monday, he is in a “critical state” after the discovery of renal failure. Previously, the sovereign pontiff also suffered from a polymicrobial infection. He was also the victim of a respiratory asthmatic crisis and anemia.
- The various pathologies from which the Pope suffers, coupled with the disturbing communication of the Vatican, using serious terms, testify to the complexity of the situation. “These are the most serious and most concern press releases that we have ever seen,” alert Loup Besmond de Senneville, corresponding to the Vatican.
- For their part, doctors appear alarmist regarding the state of health of Pope Francis. In the event of serious kidney problems, “there would be a significant worsening and the prognosis could become dark,” warns Abele Donati, director of the anesthesia and resuscitation clinic of the University Walking Hospital, in the columns of Corriere dellasera . According to the specialist, kidney failure could “report the presence of a sepsis at an early stage (…) The next hours will be decisive,” he said.
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12:49 – “We sail more than ever at sight”
In the words of the Italian media Corriere dellasera, doctors “sail more than ever”, about the health of the Pope. The conditions of the Holy Father remain critical, “reported the daily bulletin last night.” These are the most difficult, very dangerous days. It is as if (the sovereign pontiff) walked along a ridge, “said the newspaper.
“If the treatments are good, and I do not doubt it given the caliber of the colleagues of Gemelli, the situation can be reversible. However, we do not have other evaluation elements than only those who follow closely the Pontiff can own “until Monday, tries to reassure Abele Donati, director of the anesthesia and resuscitation clinic at the University Walking Hospital.
12:32 – “Septicemia could be the cause of the Pope’s kidney problem”
This Monday, February 24, the health of Pope Francis worries more than ever. On the eleventh day of its hospitalization, light renal failure was detected, which strongly worries doctors. This renal failure could precisely “point out the presence of sepsis at an early stage. This is the body’s response to an infection in progress, in this case of the two lungs” explains Abeati, director of the clinic of Anesthesia and resuscitation of the University Hospital of Marches at Corriere Dellasera.
He continues: “The infection must be controlled with antibiotics. It is then necessary to support the suffering bodies (…) If serious kidney problems were to appear, there would be a significant worsening and the prognosis could become dark,” warns- he. “Septicemia could be the cause of the Pope’s kidney problem. The next few hours will be decisive,” he said.
02/23/25 – 15:08 – The pope thanks his faithful
The Pope also spoke on his X account. “These days, I received many affection messages and I was particularly touched by the letters and drawings of children. Thank you for this proximity and for for The comfort prayers that I received from around the world! “He tweeted.
These days, I received many affection messages and I was particularly touched by the letters and drawings of children. Thank you for this proximity and for the comfort prayers that I received from the whole world!
– Pope Francis (@pontifx_fr) FEBRUARY 23, 2025
02/23/25 – 14:03 – The pope is expressed in his text of Sunday prayer
While he cannot direct the Sunday prayer of the Angelus because of his state of health, the Pope has chosen to write a text. “For my part, I trust with confidence my hospitalization […] by following the necessary treatments; And rest is also part of therapy. I sincerely thank the doctors and the nursing staff of this hospital for the care they provide me with and for the dedication with which they do their service to the patients, “he wrote. This is the second Sunday in That he does not direct this prayer, when he had already done it from the hospital in the past.
02/23/25 – 12:28 – The pope “remains alert”, according to Vatican News
“The Holy Father remains alert and spent the day on Saturday in an armchair,” said Vatican News. The blood transfusion that was carried out yesterday was done after blood tests revealed “a thrombocytopenia (lack of plates in the blood, editor’s note), associated with anemia”.
02/23/25 – 11:05 am – a “quiet night” but a state of health that remains worrying
The pope “spent a quiet night and rested,” the Vatican announced on Sunday, February 23. “The state of the Holy Father remains critical and, as we explained yesterday, the Pope is not out of danger,” said another press release. “For the moment, the prognosis is reserved,” say the Pope’s doctors.
02/23/25 – 10:46 – A respiratory asthmatic crisis on Saturday
The Pope was the victim of an asthmatic respiratory crisis on Saturday in the morning, according to a statement from the Vatican, when he was already hospitalized. He then benefited from a contribution of broadband oxygen and blood transfusion.
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“The night went well, the Pope slept and rest,” said the Holy See in a brief press release this Monday, February 24. The sovereign pontiff remains, however, in a “critical state” at the start of the week. “The complexity of the clinical picture and the necessary wait for pharmacological therapies to require the requirement to remain reserved on the prognosis”, specifies its latest health bulletin published on Sunday evening. In addition, some examinations show an initial renal failure, certainly light, but present. If doctors indicate that this relatively disturbing aspect of his health remains “under control”, the accumulation of pathologies revealed in Pope Francis does not bode well, moreover at an advanced age.
Pope Francis has been hospitalized for ten days, but he has been sick for longer. What has been announced as bronchitis has become pneumonia affecting the two lungs. In detail, the Vatican indicates that “polymicrobial infection, which has declared itself against the backdrop of bronchitasis and asthmatic bronchitis, and which required the use of cortisone -based antibiotic therapy, makes therapeutic treatment more complex “. On Saturday February 22, the Pope was also the victim of an breathing asthmatic crisis. He then needed a broadband oxygen supply, as well as blood transfusion. “The state of the Holy Father remains critical and, as we explained yesterday, the Pope is not out of danger,” a statement from the Vatican said on Saturday evening.
Caution remains in view of the fragile health of Pope Francis, 88 years old. Especially since a long hospitalization is not without risk as Margherita de Bac à correre s tha tight on Wednesday indicated: “The most dreaded danger is sepsis, the passage of microorganisms in the blood that spread to other organs, with very serious consequences “. The Italian newspaper also revealed that the sovereign pontiff should observe two to three weeks of “absolute rest”. In France, the deputy editor-in-chief of the cross and former correspondent to the Vatican, Loup Besmond de Senneville, is also worried about the view of the communication of the Holy See on RTL: “If the Vatican evokes a worrying, complex, complex, complex picture With words that report real problems, it is clearly the most serious and most worrying press releases that we have ever seen on hospitalization of Pope Francis “. “The worst can happen, but the pope could also get better in the coming hours. We are really in a complex situation,” he insists.
Pope Francis’s fragile health
In recent years, the octogenarian has multiplied hospitalizations and operations, some of which had been hidden by religious authorities before being revealed by Italian media. The health concerns of the Pope, who appeared, very weakened had then aroused great concern. After consecutive and rather important medical problems, between 2021 and 2023, Pope Francis seems to have escaped new big health problems in recent months. The new hospitalization of the Pope at the beginning of 2025 is worrying, the state of the Pope is to be monitored: in people over 75, acute bronchitis can justify increased medical surveillance, especially when symptoms and the inflammation persists beyond 10 days.