(22 Feb 2025)
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Vatican City – 22 February 2025
1. Various of St. Peter’s Basilica, faithful walking towards Holy Door carrying cross
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Austen Ivereigh, Papal biographer:
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“I’m still worried. I’m concerned. But I don’t think he’s in any imminent danger, that’s what the doctors have been saying to us. He’s not out of danger, but he’s not in any immediate danger. And it reminds me, really, if ever you’ve had an elderly relative who is in hospital with a severe condition, you have to take it day by day, and we just don’t know at the moment. We do know it’s going to be a long process of healing. The infection has to be dealt with and then it’ll take time. If it’s the long-term condition that he’s often spoken about, that would be probably a cause for him to think about resignation. But my sense is it’s way too early to even begin to think about that because, really, what we’ve got now is a struggle over the next few weeks, and that struggle is about the infection that’s there. And I think he will be thinking, you know, this is what we’ve got to get through first and then let’s see.”
3. Various of nuns reciting prayer as the walk down Via della Conciliazione
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Austen Ivereigh, Papal biographer:
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“The Curia, or the Vatican bureaucracy, is like any bureaucracy. It always tries to plan for change. And there’s definitely an atmosphere here in Rome at the moment. There’s a sense of uncertainty. No organisation likes uncertainty and if people are, of course, talking about the future, that’s inevitable. The Pope, by the way, knows that, I mean he jokes, you know, that every time, you know, he coughs, that there’s an air of a conclave already. He knows this."
5. Various of St. Peter’s Basilica, faithful walking
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis’ biographer on Saturday said he believed it was sensible for the Vatican to "plan for change" amid the pontiff’s ongoing battle against pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection.
“The Curia, or the Vatican bureaucracy, is like any bureaucracy. It always tries to plan for change," Austen Ivereigh, the pope’s biographer told the Associated Press.
Francis slept well overnight, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a brief early update Saturday.
But doctors have warned that the main threat facing the 88-year-old Francis would be the onset of sepsis, a serious infection of the blood that can occur with pneumonia.
"You have to take it day by day, and we just don’t know at the moment. We do know it’s going to be a long process of healing. The infection has to be dealt with and then it’ll take time," said Ivereigh.
Ivereigh said Francis’ future plans would depend on the doctors’ long term prognosis.
"If it’s the long-term condition that he’s often spoke about, that would be probably a cause for him to think about resignation. But my sense is it’s way too early to even begin to think about that."
As of Friday, there was no evidence of any sepsis, and Francis was responding to the various drugs he is taking, the pope’s medical team said in their first in-depth update on the pope’s condition.
Francis, who has chronic lung disease, was admitted to Gemelli hospital on February 14 after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened.
Doctors first diagnosed the complex viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract infection and then the onset of pneumonia in both lungs.
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