(19 Feb 2025)
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Rome, Italy – 19 February 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Mid of the Vespers prayer for Pope Francis inside Rome’s Argentinian church, Holy Mary of Sorrows
2. Banner inside church reading (Italian) “Prayer for the Pope” with text of prayer
3. Wide interior of Argentinian Church of Rome
4. Close of person’s hands while praying
5. Mid of faithful praying during the prayer for Pope Francis
6. Close of the hands praying and holding rosary
7. Pull focus of two women praying
8. Close of woman with face in hands
9. Mid of woman reading prayer for Pope Francis
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Olga Bitlan, Catholic faithful:
“We hope that he will get better soon and that he will be back to pray for us, for everyone. We pray for him, we hope that he will recover soon and that he will stay with us praying for the years to come.”
11. Close of crucifix in the church
12. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Father Fernando Laguna, Rector of Argentine church in Rome:
“We intensified the prayers already on Friday, also today is important. Yesterday we had the communitarian prayers, but the personal ones are always (important). Yesterday we had a prayer with rosary, today is important because the Rome’s vicar (head of the diocese) asked all the parishes and religion communities to pray. Even before the notification from the vicar we already had a precise timing to call the people to pray for the Pope.”
13. Close of poster reading (Spanish) "Prayer for Pope Francis’s health”
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giovani Cerulli Irelli, faithful and mathematics professor at La Sapienza university:
"I love the Pope a lot. He taught me how to pray, he wrote some beautiful books, and he came back to the roots. So I hope that his guide will be strong and firm for the next years and surely for the duration of the whole Jubilee. I really hope he will get out of this terrible sickness.”
15. Faithful entering church
16. Wide of church exterior
STORYLINE:
Rome’s diocese invited all the parishes and religious communities of the city to hold a communitarian silent prayer on Wednesday afternoon for the health of Pope Francis.
The prayer, meant to give to the Pontiff strength and hope, took place before the evening Vespers mass.
Small groups of Catholic faithful gathered in the hundreds of churches that are scattered all over Rome in the late afternoon for an hour-long silent prayer.
“Today is important because the Rome’s vicar asked all the parishes and religion communities to pray," said Father Fernando Laguna, Rector of the Argentine Church of Rome.
The Vatican said on Wednesday that Francis, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, was up, eating and had gotten out of bed after a tranquil night, a day after tests confirmed he had pneumonia in both lungs on top of asthmatic bronchitis.
Francis was admitted to the Gemelli hospital Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened. On Monday, medical personnel determined that he was suffering from a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection, meaning a mix of viruses, bacteria and possibly other organisms had colonized in his respiratory tract. Late Tuesday, the Vatican said a chest CT scan showed the onset of bilateral pneumonia on top of asthmatic bronchitis, which is being treated with cortisone and antibiotics.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has visited Pope Francis in the hospital and says he’s “alert and responsive” and full of good humor despite his pneumonia. The Vatican said Francis’ overall condition remained stationary, but that blood tests showed a “slight improvement” in key inflammation indices.
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