(28 Feb 2025)
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Rome – 28 February 2025
1. Close of Pope Francis image on balloons left in front of Gemelli hospital
2. Woman standing in front of late Pope John Paul II statue in front of Gemelli hospital entrance
3. Close of statue, hospital’s windows in ten background
4. Close of Pope Francis images on candles
5. Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh and president of the Ireland Bishops Conference, arriving in front of the hospital and making the sign of then cross
6. Various of Archbishop Martin praying
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh and president of the Ireland Bishops Conference:
“I’m here in Rome for a couple of days for meetings at the Vatican, but back at home a lot of people are thinking about Pope Francis as you can imagine, and they’ve asked me ‘look, when you are in Rome please say a prayer for the pope, so I thought this morning it would be good to come up here to the hospital, to be here with so many other people just to offer a prayer for him, and to ask God to give him the strength and all then graces he needs these days and hours.”
8. Various of nuns praying
9. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sister Alfonsa, nun:
“We pray always in this moment of difficulty, say mass and the rosary prayers, and also everyone of us prays alone, so all day we pray for the pope, and I am pretty confident that the pope will come out of this because the whole world is praying.”
10. Close of rosaries hanging from John Paul II statue
11. People in front of John Paul II statue
12. Close of Pope Francis images on candles
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis reached the two-week mark in his recovery from pneumonia Friday as doctors suggested he had overcome the most critical phase of the infection but held off of declaring him out of danger entirely.
The Vatican’s early Friday update suggested a level of normalcy and routine as the 88-year-old pope continues recovering at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. “As in past days, the night was tranquil and the pope now is resting,” it said.
Francis had breakfast, read the day’s newspapers and was receiving respiratory physiotherapy, the Vatican said.
In their Thursday evening bulletin, doctors said Francis’ clinical condition had confirmed that he was improving.
He was alternating the high-flow supplemental oxygen he had been receiving by a nasal tube with a mask in a sign of improved respiratory function.
Additionally, he left his hospital room to go to his nearby private chapel to pray, while continuing with respiratory physiotherapy and work, the Vatican said.
For the second day in a row, doctors avoided saying Francis was in critical condition, suggesting he had overcome the most acute phase of the infection.
But given the complexity of his lung infection, they said “further days of clinical stability are needed” before they revise their prognosis officially and say he is out of danger.
Francis has been at Gemelli Hospital since Feb. 14 after his bronchitis worsened.
He has shown steady, albeit slight, improvements since a respiratory crisis and kidney trouble over the weekend sparked fears for his life.
The improvements beat back speculation of an imminent death or resignation and signaled that he was still very much in charge.
Prayers continued to pour in, and many religious people have been showing up here at the Gemelli where flowers and candles are left under the statue of the late pontiff John Paul II.
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