{"id":261001,"date":"2025-03-18T00:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/vatican-releases-first-photo-of-pope-francis-since-he-was-hospitalized\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T00:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:56:16","slug":"vatican-releases-first-photo-of-pope-francis-since-he-was-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/vatican-releases-first-photo-of-pope-francis-since-he-was-hospitalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Releases First Photo of Pope Francis Since He Was Hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/16\/multimedia\/16int-pope-wkzf\/16int-pope-wkzf-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Vatican Releases First Photo of Pope Francis Since He Was Hospitalized\" title=\"Vatican Releases First Photo of Pope Francis Since He Was Hospitalized\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Vatican on Sunday released the first photo of Pope Francis since he was hospitalized 31 days ago, showing him facing the altar in the small chapel that is part of his private suite at a hospital in Rome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francis celebrated Mass with other priests for the first time since he was admitted to the Policlinico A. Gemelli hospital, the Vatican said. He continued his physiotherapy \u2014 both motor and respiratory \u2014 on Sunday, and he seemed to be \u201cbenefiting from it,\u201d the Vatican said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pontiff is shown in the photo wearing a purple stole, reflective of this being the season of Lent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Earlier in the day, balloons in the Vatican colors of yellow and white were held aloft by dozens of children who had gathered in the square outside the hospital and chanted \u201cPapa Francesco\u201d and cheered \u201cViva la Pace\u201d \u2014 hurray for peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many held up signs, hoping that the pope might peek out of the windows of his 10th-floor hospital suite to see their art. They offered encouragement, wishing that the pope get well soon. One boy with a boisterous group of blue-and-yellow capped \u201ccastorini,\u201d or beavers, as children too young to be Cub Scouts are known in Italy, held a sign that said \u201cCiao Papa Cesco, I love you a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pope did not appear at the windows of his 10th-floor suite, but he acknowledged the children&#8217;s presence in his traditional Sunday blessing and prayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI know that many children are praying for me; some of them came here today to Gemelli as a sign of closeness,\u2019\u2019 the pontiff said in offering his traditional Sunday blessing, which was not delivered live for the fifth time. \u201cThank you, dearest children! The pope loves you and is always waiting to meet you,\u2019\u2019 Francis wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Rev. Enzo Fortunato, the president of the pontifical committee for World Children\u2019s Day, who organized the gathering, said \u201cchildren transmit joy\u201d and their presence in the square was a \u201csymbolic medicine for Pope Francis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francis was admitted to the Gemelli hospital on Feb. 14 with respiratory infections and bronchitis that developed into pneumonia in both lungs. He suffered several setbacks, including mild kidney failure and a few respiratory crises. He was in critical condition until last Monday, when doctors said he was no longer in imminent danger of dying from pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even so, his condition remains complex because of his age \u2014 88 \u2014 as well as his pre-existing lung disease. In 1957, Francis had part of his right lung removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His condition has been stable for the past week. The Vatican said Saturday that Francis still required \u201cinpatient medical therapy, motor and respiratory physiotherapy,\u201d treatments that \u201cshow further, gradual improvements.\u201d The Vatican also said doctors were gradually reducing the need for noninvasive mechanical ventilation at night, substituting it with high-flow oxygen therapy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Sunday\u2019s written address, Francis acknowledged his frailty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI am facing a period of trial, and I join with so many brothers and sisters who are sick: fragile, at this time, like me,\u201d he said. \u201cOur bodies are weak but, even like this, nothing can prevent us from loving, praying, giving ourselves, being for each other, in faith, shining signs of hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some 50 children from Caivano, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/03\/world\/europe\/italy-rape-women-violence.html\" title=\"\">an impoverished town<\/a> on the outskirts of Naples, woke up at dawn to be at the Gemelli hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe pope for them is the pope of peace, he\u2019s their hero in a contemporary world where heroes are in short supply,\u201d said Andrea Iacomini, spokesman of Unicef Italy, who accompanied them. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/16\/world\/europe\/pope-francis-hospital-photo.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican on Sunday released the first photo of Pope Francis since he was hospitalized 31 days ago, showing him facing the altar in the small chapel that is part of his private suite at a hospital in Rome. 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