(14 Feb 2025)
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ROME, ITALY – 14 February 2025
1. Media on hill facing pope’s windows at Gemelli Hospital
2. Window of rooms in hospital dedicated to pope’s hospitalizations
3. Entrance to Gemelli Hospital
4. Media
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alessia (no last name given, from Ukraine:
“I am very fond of him and I hope he gets well soon because he prays for everyone. He prays for the world, he prays for Ukraine, he prays for Palestine.”
6. Statue of John Paul II in front of Gemelli hospital
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Bruno Leoni, vox pop:
“I think he is well cared for, so I am tranquil, but you have to have faith.”
8. Microphone on hill facing hospital
9. People leaving hospital
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Nino Davi, from Palermo:
“I wish with all my heart that he will get better because these awful illnesses you don’t wish them on anyone, yes, so I wish will all my heart that he gets better.”
11. Various of media
12. Entrance to Gemelli Hospital
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday to treat a weeklong bout of bronchitis and undergo diagnostic tests, the Vatican said, confirming the latest issues with the 88-year-old’s pontiff’s health that forced him to cancel his agenda through Monday at least.
Francis has complained of breathing trouble and was diagnosed with bronchitis Feb. 6, but had continued to hold daily audiences in his Vatican hotel suite. He attended his general audience Wednesday and presided at an outdoor Mass on Sunday. But he had handed off his speeches for an aide to read aloud, saying he was having trouble breathing.
On Friday, he appeared bloated and pale during the handful of audiences he held before going to the hospital. The bloating appeared to indicate that the medication he was taking to treat the lung infection was making him retain water.
Christopher Lamb, CNN’s Vatican correspondent, who saw Francis at the beginning of an audience Friday with CNN head Mark Thompson, said the pope was mentally alert but struggling to speak for extended periods due to breathing difficulties.
Francis, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, has long battled health problems, especially bouts of acute bronchitis in winter. He uses a wheelchair, walker or cane when moving around his apartment and recently fell twice, hurting his arm and chin.
Francis is being treated at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where he was last admitted in June 2023 to have surgery to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in the abdominal wall. A few months before that, he spent three days in the hospital to receive intravenous antibiotics for a respiratory infection.
He later revealed that he had been hospitalized that day after spiking a high fever and was diagnosed with what he said was “an acute and strong pneumonia, in the lower part of the lungs.”
The Vatican said Francis was admitted after his Friday audiences. In addition to regular Vatican officials, and Thompson, the pope met Friday morning with the Slovak prime minister, Robert Fico.
"This morning, at the end of the audiences, Pope Francis will be admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic for some necessary diagnostic tests and to continue in a hospital setting treatment for bronchitis that is still ongoing," a Vatican statement said earlier.
No details were given about the duration of Francis’ hospitalization, but the Vatican later announced he was canceling his participation in Holy Year events through Monday.
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