Pope FrancisIn a difficult lung infection, he calmed down a peaceful night, the Vatican said on Sunday, but everything still touches its age, fragile and previous lungs.

The statement on a line of Vatican Spokesman Matteo Bruni did not mention the early Sunday whether Francis was out of bed or breakfast. “The night was quiet, the Pope calmed down.”

Brief renewal came after doctors say that the doctors were 88-year-old Patriarch, as a young man as a young man, was in critical condition when he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis.

Francis has been hospitalized for a week for pneumonia and for complex lung infection. He was admitted to Gemeli hospital in Rome on February 14, a BRONCHITIS Week Battle WastedA number

On Saturday, the Pope received oxygen's “high flows” to breathe him, as well as blood transfusions when tests showed low platelets that needed for a bath.

The statement of the week also says that the Patriarch “continues to be vigilant and spent the day in the armchair, albeit yesterday.” Doctors said the forecast was “reserved.”

“We are with us Pope Francis”

Francis should have been marked in the basilica of St. Peter's basil and ordained hundreds of deacons as part of the Vatican's Annual Holy Memorial.

The organizer of the Holy Year, Archbishop Rino Physicella mentioned the mass and offered a special prayer for Francis from the altar to the Pope.

“Although he is in the bed of hospital, we feel close to Pope Francis, we feel it among us,” said Physicella with hundreds of white deacons. “And this makes us stronger and stronger our prayer that the Lord will help him in his own ordeal and illness.

Deacons dedicated to the Honest Day, Deacon of Deacon, more than 6,000 pilgrims from about 100 countries to Rome.

Vatican's hierarchy disturbs resignation manipulations

Meanwhile, the Vatican's Hierarchy passed through defensive, and to speculate that Francisco could decide to resign. There is no provision in the law of Rules what to do if the grandfather becomes incapable. Francis said that he had resigned, which would be redirected if he was unable to make such a decision.

In the interview CBS News 2024 MayFrancis said that the idea of ​​standing down never happened to him.

“Maybe if it comes when health can no longer go,” Francis said. “Maybe because the only weakness I have in the knee and it's much better. But it never happened to me. “

Francis, took over the pap In 2013, at the age of 76, after his predecessor, Benedict XVI became the first. Pope for retirement for about 600 yearsreferring to his Health decline before falling down. He died in 2022 at the age of 95.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin gave a rare interview to Corriere Della Sera to answer the news about the use of possible resignation. After the Vatican released an unusual and official denial of the Italian media report, which says that Paroline and the Chief of Pope visited Francis in the Secret Hospital. Given the canonical requirements of legitimizing the charter, the consequences of such a meeting were significant, but the Vatican settlement denied that any such meeting took place.

Parole noted that such speculations seemed “useless” when the health of Francis, its restoration and return in the Vatican.

“On the other hand, I think it is quite normal that no misconceptions can be spread or said in these situations. That's certainly happened. “Nevertheless, I don't think there is a certain movement, and so far I haven't heard anything like that.”