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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 18 February 2025
1. Villa 31 shantytown overlooking Buenos Aires ++MUTE++
2. Graffiti of Pope Francis and footballer Lionel Messi
3. Faithful arriving at Virgen del Rosario chapel
4. Chapel
5. Various of people praying
6. Claudia Doldan praying
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Doldan, 52, faithful:
"I know Pope Francis, at the time (named) Bergoglio, many years ago. I knew him when he washed feet in the neighborhood (for Holy Week) and the truth is that I fear for his health, and we are all worried."
8. Various of people praying
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Lopez 48, faithful:
"I feel sad that the father is going through this situation but I have faith that God is going to take him through and I think it is something nice, such a nice gesture, that all the churches come together, especially here when he gave mass in this church. If I remember correctly, I saw him when I was little, he gave mass in this church."
10. Father Agustin Lopez Solari
11. Virgin of Copacabana
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Father Agustin Lopez Solari:
"It seems to me that (Pope Francis) is a model of a pastor and leader for today’s world, so when God takes him to his glory, okay, but we hope to be able to intercede with our prayers for his health to have the Pope in the best possible condition until God decides."
13. Father Agustin Lopez Solari
STORYLINE:
Faithful in the poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, where Pope Francis conducted mass before becoming the pontiff, started a series of masses praying for his recovery.
That happened after the Vatican said earlier on Tuesday that the pontiff had developed pneumonia in both lungs.
New tests had showed a further complication in the condition of the 88-year-old pontiff that raised concerns about his ability to fight off the infection.
Dozens of faithful gathered at the small Virgen del Rosario chapel in Villa 31, one of the largest slums in Buenos Aires, and expressed concerns about his health.
"I fear for his health, and we are all worried, " said 52-year-old Claudia Doldan.
The Vatican said Francis’ respiratory infection also involves asthmatic bronchitis, which requires cortisone antibiotic treatment. “Laboratory tests, chest X-ray, and the Holy Father’s clinical condition continue to present a complex picture,” the Vatican said.
Nevertheless, the pope, who had the upper lobe of his right lung removed as a young man, is in good spirits and is grateful for the prayers for his recovery, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a late update.
Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital in a “fair” condition on 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.
“The follow-up chest CT scan which the Holy Father underwent this afternoon … demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia, which required additional drug therapy,” Bruni said.
Bronchitis can lead to pneumonia, a deeper and far more serious infection of the lungs’ air sacs. Pneumonia can develop in part of one lung or an entire lung, or both lungs. It tends to be more serious when both lungs are affected because there isn’t healthy lung tissue to compensate.
The Vatican hasn’t provided any information about how Francis is responding to any of the drugs he has been given other than to say he isn’t running a fever.
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