Pope Francis is in a “stable state” and “spent a quiet night” according to the Vatican. However, his health is not reassuring with an essential respiratory aid and a last disturbing message.
The essentials:
- In a vocal message published on Thursday, March 6, Pope Francis addressed to the faithful: “Thank you with all my heart for the prayers you make for my health,” said the sovereign pontiff in a chevotant voice. “I accompany you from here. May God bless you and that the Virgin take care of you,” he continued. His voice and her trembling tone have at this stage, nothing reassuring.
- His hospitalization continues and his state of health does not improve. The sovereign pontiff was admitted to the Gemilli Hospital in Rome on February 14 after a bilateral polymicrobial pulmonary infection which was added to chronic bronchitis.
- The state of health of the Argentinian Jesuit is “stable” according to the latest news from the Vatican, but the 88 -year -old man remains in a “complex” situation with a “reserved prognosis”. He has already made four episodes of respiratory failure, including two consecutive on Monday, March 3. Crises that could reproduce and worsen the state of the Holy Father.
- Pope Francis, whose lungs and bronchi are affected, is constantly assisted by respiratory aid. It is placed under high speed oxygen therapy during the day and under non -invasive mechanical ventilation at night. The sovereign pontiff also follows respiratory and motor physiotherapy.
- The stationary state of Pope Francis is not a new so reassuring, since an improvement in his health could be hoped after three weeks of hospitalization. The Vatican, however, ensures that the Holy Father remains “good humor”, “always alert and cooperative in therapy”.
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10:08 – The Vatican evokes “stable clinical conditions”
“The Pope spent a quiet night and woke up shortly after 8 am,” said the last updates to the Holy See press room, this Friday, March 7, 2025 in the morning concerning the state of health of Pope Francis. The sovereign pontiff is still in a complex, even if his last health bulletin (last night) reported “clinical conditions that remained stable compared to the previous days”. If the prognosis of doctors remains reserved, the next health bulletin will be published on Saturday said the Vatican.
09:59 – The audio message sent by Pope Francis
“Thank you with all my heart for the prayers you make for my health from the place (Saint-Pierre de Rome), I accompany you today,” said the sovereign pontiff in a chevroting voice, in a message addressed to the faithful on the evening of Thursday, March 6. “May God bless you and the Virgin takes care of you,” he continued. If the 88 -year -old Argentinian Jesuit is in a “stable” state, this disturbing message to say the least, with a trembling voice and an inexpensive tone does not really have a positive signal. After three weeks of hospitalization, he remains in a “complex” situation with a “reserved prognosis”.
03/06/25 – 21:34 – A short audio message from Pope Francis published this Thursday
In a short audio message published this Thursday evening, the sovereign pontiff addressed to the faithful. “Thank you with all my heart for the prayers you do for my health from the place [Saint-Pierre]I accompany you from here, “said Pope Francis.” May God bless you and the Virgin takes care of you, “he adds.
03/06/25 – 20:22 – Pope’s state of health remains “stable”, but ..
In his latest bulletin evoking the health of Pope Francis, the Holy See says that the state of health of the Sovereign Pontiff was “stable” this Thursday. A third day of stabilization which does not prevent the prognosis from remaining “reserved”. “The Holy Father continued with profit respiratory and motor physiotherapy. Hemodynamic parameters [la pression sanguine ndlr.] And blood tests remained stable, “said the press release.
03/06/25 – 18:19 – Pope Francis has not been seen for almost three weeks
Pope Francis has been hospitalized for almost three weeks and has not been seen for so long. This absence is the longest of the Pontificate of the Argentinian Jesuit which began in 2013. The sovereign Pontiff had already been hospitalized several times in 2023, but he had always appeared at least once at the balcony of his hospital room for the weekly prayer of the Angelus, Sunday at noon. The Pope Francis also did not appear on this Wednesday of the ashes, which marks the beginning of the 40 days of Lent before Easter, the most important party on the Catholic calendar.
03/06/25 – 11:52 – Pope Francis under respiratory physiotherapy
In addition to respiratory assistance, Pope Francis has respiratory physiotherapy. It is a rehabilitation exercise carried out with a physiotherapist to find the ability to breathe by yourself, enough and better. The goal is, ultimately, to do without heavier devices such as oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation. The sovereign pontiff also receives motor physiotherapy according to the Vatican.
03/06/25 – 11:01 – Any respiratory assistance for Pope Francis
Affected by pneumonia and chronic bronchitis, Pope Francis has difficulty oxygenating himself. Which were aggravated with episodes of respiratory failure caused by the obstruction of the bronchi and respiratory tract. Since the beginning of the week, the sovereign pontiff has been constantly attending a device to help him breathe: he receives “high speed oxygen therapy during the day and non -invasive mechanical ventilation [est] Resumption during the night, “said the Vatican in his latest press release on Thursday morning.
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The sovereign pontiff is now in a “stable” state, and his “reserved” vital prognosis. Friday, March 7, he “spent a quiet night and woke up shortly after 8 am” according to the official statement of the Vatican. The day before, the Argentinian Jesuit spoke for the first time since his hospitalization. In a chevant and not really reassuring voice, he addressed the faithful: “Thank you with all my heart for the prayers you make for my health from the place (Saint-Pierre de Rome), I accompany you by”, explained the sovereign pontiff. “May God bless you and the Virgin takes care of you,” he continued.
Last week, “Wednesday evening, the last health bulletin explained that the scanner passed by François showed a normal development of pulmonary inflammation and good blood tests. In the afternoon of Wednesday, February 26, François also continued his professional activities. The prognosis remains reserved according to doctors,” said the press release.
“The complexity of the clinical picture and the necessary wait for pharmacological therapies to require the requirement to remain reserved on the prognosis,” said his health bulletin. In addition, some examinations showed an initial renal failure, certainly light, but well 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 more than two weeks, 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 antibiotic therapy based on cortisone, 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.
Pope Francis’s fragile health
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 Talle de Torrere sulra indicated on Wednesday: “The most dreaded danger is sepsis, the passage of microorganisms in the blood which propagate 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 clinical picture, with words that report real problems, it is clearly the most serious and most concern communications that we have ever seen on hospitalization of Pope Francis”.
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 inflammation persist beyond 10 days.