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Pope Francis The Vatican said the situation was still in critical condition on Monday, but showed slight improvement in laboratory testing and resumed some work activities, including he has been in touch since calling a parish in Gaza.

The Vatican night announcement is more optimistic than in recent days, as Francis, 88, has encountered pneumonia in both lungs. It says he doesn’t have it anymore Respiratory Crisis The supplemental oxygen he used has continued since Saturday, but the oxygen flow and concentration have decreased slightly. The mild kidney insufficiency found on Sunday has not yet caused an alarm, doctors said, while saying his prognosis is still protected.

He received the Eucharist in the morning and resumed work in the afternoon.

“In the evening, he called the parish priest of the Gaza diocese to express his father’s intimacy,” the statement said.

For more than a year, Francis visited Argentine pastor, Rev. Gabriel Romanelli, who led the Catholic community of the church, during the war in Israel, which was Palestinian shelter. Romanelli reported Francis’ hearing shortly after he was hospitalized, but has not since. The Vatican said he had sent Francis a video and the pope called to thank him.

Earlier Monday, the Vatican announced the night prayer of the health of the Pope in St. Peter’s Square and invited the Romans and others to join him as he battles complex lung infections and complexity. Vatican Cardinal Pietro Parolin plans to lead the first prayer Monday night.

Francis, who suffers from double pneumonia and has an early stage of renal insufficiency, wakes up on Monday, and is excited. The Vatican said he had no pain and had no artificial nutrition.

It said: “The night was very good, the Pope was sleeping and was resting.”

Francis has been at Gemelli Hospital since February 14 after a worsening of bronchitis in Francis since February 14. An estimated 200 people participated were white doctors’ coats or green surgical scrubs. Some people kneel in prayer.

“We are very sorry. Pope Francis is a good pope and hope he can do it. Let’s hope,” said Filomena Ferraro, a cho who lives in Gemelli on Monday. “We are praying to join Him, but what else can we do?”

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The candles, flowers and portraits of Pope Francis were placed outside the statue of John Paul II, on February 24, 2025, the statue of John Paul II hospitalized in Rome.

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The doctor said Francis’ condition was touch and behavior, given his age, vulnerability and preexisting lung disease. They warned that the main threat Francis faced was sepsis, which could be a serious infection with pneumonia complications.

To date, no sepsis of sepsis has been mentioned in the medical update provided by the Vatican.

Now hospitalizations have Francis as the pope’s longest. He spent 10 days at Gemelli Hospital in 2021 as he was removed from his 13-inch colon.

On Sunday in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan admitted that the Roman church leaders did not say publicly: Catholics are united “at the bedside of a dying father.”

“Just as our Father Pope Francis is in very, very fragile health, and may be close to death,” Dolan said on the pulpit of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, backed back. ”

Francis’ condition has recovered from speculation about what might happen to him if he loses consciousness or loses capacity and whether he will quit.

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