The end of the pontificate and waiting for new ones
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The Catholic (and not only) world has kept his breath for over a week. The information from the Vatican asked with all the power the question whether these were the last days of Franciszek's life. And although ultimately the doctors managed to master kidney infection and bilateral pneumonia, most Vaticanists emphasize that this is the last simple pontificate. And this asked about the successor – writes for tvn24.pl a philosopher, publicist and Catholic activist Tomasz P. Terlikowski.
Evening rosary in St. Piotr, Appeals of the Episcopate in many countries for prayer for the Pope, as well as from day to day the shortening messages of the Prague Office of the Holy See (and extending evening messages from doctors) make you aware that Francis' condition was really serious.
– Our Holy Father, Pope Francisis in a very, very fragile health and probably close to death – Cardinal Timothy Dolan, chairman of the Episcopate conference, said in one of his sermons in recent days USA.
And although now messages from the Vatican are more optimistic, and medical information disappears about the critical state, this does not mean that the diagnosis of the American hierarch has ceased to be valid.
Vatican: Further, slight improvement in the pope's condition. The account of Maja Wójcikowska from RomeTvn24
The Pope is 88 years old, for years he has no half of one lung, he suffers from arthritis, and in his age and in his state of health he does not come out of bilateral pneumonia without any health effects.
So if even now Franciszek recovers, he leaves the hospital and continues to perform his function, then … you can ask the question how long he will have his strength, and whether the church will not choose a new bishop of Rome soon.
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