The sovereign pontiff was hospitalized several days ago. This Monday, the news on his state of health is not reassuring.
Pope Francis was hospitalized on Friday, February 14, and doctors are not reassuring this Monday. In a statement written by the Vatican, the pontifical services indicate that “the results of the tests carried out in recent days and today have demonstrated a polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract which has led to a new modification of the treatment”. The document, written for the international press adds that “all examinations carried out to date indicate a complex clinical picture which will require appropriate hospitalization”.
Matteo Brunei, the director of the Holy See press service, wanted to be reassuring on Saturday. “He had a breakfast this [samedi] Morning and read newspapers, “he said. The church was admitted to a clinic in Rome to treat bronchitis. 88 years old, Pope Francis has suffered from bronchi inflammation since more a week and the evil 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 medical concern last week.
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. 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 inflammation persist beyond 10 days.
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13:59 – The Vatican’s worrying announcement on the Pope’s health
The Pope’s health bulletin, communicated on Monday, reports “exams that demonstrated a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection that led to a new modification of therapy”. Pontifical services use a very specific term by speaking of “complex clinical picture”, which makes it possible to remain fairly elusive on pathology or pathologies that affect the 88 -year -old man. The Vatican communicates on the health of the Pope only in the event of necessity, which suggests that his condition is worrying on Monday.