Posted on 04/12/2023 1:58:25 PM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Concerning his recent stay in hospital, Pope Francis reportedly stated he arrived unconscious, thus raising questions about the truth of an incident that the Vatican’s Press Office has consistently tried to whitewash.
The Pope’s comments were revealed by Italian media April 11 and were reportedly made by him to a personal confidant. According to Michele Ferri, who spoke with Francis on the phone on Easter Sunday as he regularly does, the Pope stated that he arrived unconscious to hospital, and that a few hours would have made the difference between life and death.
Francis was taken to Rome’s Gemelli hospital Wednesday March 29, with the Holy See Press Office stating on the day that the Pope was there for “previously scheduled checkups.” But the Italian media swiftly debunked the official narrative, with Francis having to cancel a scheduled interview and his appointments after the Wednesday audience and be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. According to the news reports, which cited sources in the hospital, Francis was suffering from “heart problems” along with breathing issues when he arrived.
An evening statement from the Vatican on the same day then declared that the Pope had for some days “complained of some breathing difficulties,” and that medics had discovered a “respiratory infection (excluding Covid 19 infection) that will require a few days of appropriate hospital medical therapy.”
Such a diagnosis was in apparent contrast with the Pope’s physical condition only hours earlier at his weekly audience, where he was animated and not presenting signs of such a reported condition.
With the official statements downplaying the seriousness of the Pontiff’s condition, Francis was subsequently released from hospital on April 1. As he was released, the 86-year-old quipped that he was “still alive.”
READ: Pope Francis ‘improving’ from ‘respiratory infection,’ Vatican says
Prior to his Saturday release, on Friday afternoon Francis had visited the children’s oncology ward, where he blessed the patients and baptized a baby — all of which would not align with his diagnosis of having a respiratory infection.
With observers still confused as to the true nature of Pope Francis’ health condition, and with the Holy See Press Office’s statements appearing to be blatantly misleading, Francis then took part in the Holy Week and Easter ceremonies mostly as scheduled. He did, though, pull out of attending the Good Friday stations of the Cross at the Coliseum, citing the “intense cold” of recent days.
However, on Easter Sunday Francis performed a regular task: calling Michele Ferri, the brother of Andrea Ferri, who was murdered in June 2013. Francis has since befriended and called Michele 90 times, including on feasts such as Easter.
Speaking to Il Resto del Carlino Michele reported the contents of his Easter Sunday call with the Pope. “I’m still alive, he told me,” said Michele.
“That’s how he began, and I heard a fit, ringing and serene voice this time, better than last time, then he had seemed a bit fatigued,” added Michele.
Michele stated that Francis confided over the phone that he had “arrived unconscious” at the Gemelli, after having been suffering from an illness for twelve days. The Pope reportedly said: “Just a few more hours and I don’t know if I was telling the story.”
Francis reportedly added that “I saw it really bad.”
While still a teenager, Francis had a lung removed due to an infection. Then in 2021, the pontiff previously underwent a six-hour colon surgery at the Gemelli to have part of his colon removed due to diverticulitis. He subsequently spent 10 days there in recovery.
Around the time of the surgery, and following it, rumors grew that he was suffering from cancer and nearing the end of his pontificate. Such rumors were aided by his long-standing use of a wheelchair and increased knee problems. Francis subsequently denied the suggestion that he had cancer.
This fresh report now sheds further light on the sudden and still confusing admittance of Francis into hospital two weeks ago. The subject of a Pope’s health being shrouded in secrecy, particularly as a pontiff advances in age, is nothing unusual.
But the Vatican’s statements with regards to Francis’ recent hospital admission denote a marked contrast with the truth, and a determination to continue in the promotion of an alternative reality.
Pope Francis’ pontificate has been marked by demonstrations of power, as evidenced by the remarkably high number of motu proprios which he has issued on a variety of topics: in just 10 years he has issued 61 of these documents, far more than John Paul II’s 31 in 27 years.
For a Pontiff such as Francis, ensuring that no one knows the truth about his declining health will be vital if he is to hold onto power within the Vatican.
LifeSiteNews contacted the Holy See Press Office for comment on the reported papal comments but did not receive a response by time of publication.
Ping
Get the match ready....
or so I'm told
I smell smoke in our future!
I hope he repents of his sins and experiences a happy death.
There is still time for him to convert.
Is the Pope Catholic?
He might easily have five more years. Or more.
The SINod (misspelling intentional) might usher in a schism next year, and all sorts of trouble.
Can’t they give him one of those special IVs made out of ground up babies that they use to keep Soros and other democrat billionaires breathing?
The Cardinals haven’t gotten any less gay, in these intervening years.
The next one will turn it up to “11.”
The Pope has a lot in common with Fetterman.
Here’s the thing- there is a video of the Pope disappearing which leads me to believe that some of this appearances are faked. This link below was filmed live so not sure what is going on.
You won’t know if he is dead for a while.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-iBTq6NY4As
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the next pope is trans.
Who knows what’s going on with him? But I don’t think we should be getting our hopes of a new conclave up anytime soon. People like him live forever…look at George Soros…
Is he still dead?
I wonder if purple smoke means a gay pope?
Yeah. I remember our times together with fondness.
They make that in pudding form now.
“The Vatican’s Press Office has consistently tried to whitewash” many things, such as the defective papal convocations in 1958 and 2013. Funny how whitewashing never works and simply shows the failures in the Press Office.
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