(10 Mar 2025)
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Vatican City – 10 March 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press:
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"Doctors say Pope Francis is no longer in imminent danger of death as a result of the pneumonia. They say the stability that he has registered over the last few days has been consolidated. They see it in his blood tests and in his reaction, his response to the drug treatments that he’s been receiving, so they’ve upgraded the prognosis. They are still being very cautious, though. They want to keep him in the hospital for several more days to monitor him and allow him to receive the hospital therapy. He is also still receiving supplemental oxygen through a nose tube during the day, and a ventilation mask at night. Pope Francis was, however, well enough today to follow the spiritual retreat that the Vatican hierarchy is participating in this week. There was a morning session and an afternoon session, and he zoomed into it by video conference, and we expect that he’ll be doing that for the next few days as well."
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3. Wide of St Peter’s Square
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STORYLINE:
Doctors said Monday Pope Francis is no longer in imminent danger of death as a result of pneumonia that has kept him hospitalized for nearly a month, but have decided to keep him hospitalized for several more days to receive treatment.
In a late update, the doctors said the 88-year-old Pope remains stable and has consolidated improvements in recent days, as determined by blood tests and positive responses to drug treatments.
The Vatican said the doctors had lifted their previous “guarded” prognosis, meaning they determined he was no longer in imminent danger as a result of the original respiratory infection he arrived with on February 14. But their caution remained.
In a sign of his improved health, Francis followed the Vatican’s week-long spiritual retreat via videoconference on Monday in both the morning and afternoon sessions.
The 88-year-old Pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, had what was just a bad case of bronchitis when he was hospitalized last month.
The infection progressed into a complex respiratory tract infection and double pneumonia that has sidelined Francis for the longest period of his 12-year papacy and raised questions about the future.
On Thursday, the Vatican will mark the 12th anniversary of Francis’ election, the first with the pope out of sight but still in charge.
Francis was elected the 266th pope, the first Jesuit pope and first from Latin America on March 13, 2013, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.
AP video shot by Silva Stellacci
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