Pope Francis Hospitality for bronchitis, the Vatican wants to be reassuring

The Vatican wants to be reassuring. If Pope Francis was hospitalized on Friday, February 14, he “spent a quiet night and slept well,” said Matteo Brunei, director of the Holy See press service. “He had a breakfast this [samedi] morning and read newspapers. Examinations and treatments continue. “The church head was admitted to a clinic in Rome to treat bronchitis. Aged 88 years old, Pope Francis has suffered from inflammation of bronchi for more than a week and the Mal seems important enough to prevent the tenant of the Holy See from speaking for a long time.

On Wednesday, February 12, the Pope, already suffering from the bronchitis which earned him hospitalization, had to be replaced by a religious to read catechesis during his weekly audience. “I now allow myself to ask the priest to read. Me with my bronchitis I cannot yet,” he said. However, he had been optimistic about his remission: “I hope I can next time”. Pope Francis had already been replaced when reading the catechesis the previous week this time evoking a “bad cold”.

The Vatican did not make any secrets around the bronchitis of the church head and communicated on the viral disease contracted by the octogenarian very quickly. He had also justified the holding of several pontifical hearings at the home of François by this little medical concern last week. A sign that the state of health of Pope Francis is not so bad?

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 weak 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. Despite the announcement of a new hospitalization for this early 2025, the Vatican wants to be reassuring. The state of the Pope is still to be monitored: in people over 75, acute bronchitis can justify increased medical surveillance especially when symptoms and inflammation persist beyond 10 days depending on health insurance .