Francis' Health: The Picture Is too Rosy
Francis remains in a critical condition, writes Dr Paolo Gulisano, a doctor, on AldoMariaValli.it (1 March).
The bilateral interstitial pneumonia is an almost always fatal diagnosis, which leads to almost inevitable complications and a progressive and irreversible deterioration of the situation.
Pope Francis's age and obesity are important additional risk factors, particularly for cardiological complications.
The official bulletins issued by the doctors are all lacking in detail, especially with regard to Francis' vital parameters.
On 28 February, the Vatican reported "an isolated crisis of bronchospasm which, however, led to an episode of vomiting with inhalation and a sudden deterioration in the respiratory situation".
Gulisano calls this an inaccurate information because this episode makes him think of a new form of serious lung disease, pneumonia 'ab ingestis', which occurs in weak elderly patients with difficulty swallowing when food ends up not in the stomach but in the lungs, …More
Vatican bs
@Father Karl A Claver Just as when he calls traditionalists rigid, he's actually the rigid one.
With the number and various distinctions of persons who have been said or alleged to have seen and interacted with the Holy Father, including the vast number of medical personnel and hospital staff who are most certainly involved in his around-the-clock care, it would be very difficult indeed for him to be in some sort of catatonic state or, completely incapacitated or, God help him, even deceased, and the knowledge of that fact be kept entirely secret from the whole world without any indication of it at all. I cannot imagine any circumstances that would prevent information regarding his actual and truthful condition from being leaked either to the media or at least to those who occupy significant positions within the highest echelons of power and authority in the Church, via the very infamous and vaunted Vatican “rumor mills” and “grapevines” which are notorious for spreading inside details nominally cloaked to the general public. You can’t keep a dead or dying Pope secret this long and out of sight from today’s modern and technologically advanced methods and mechanisms of communication and distribution of information. You just can’t. Something would have been seen or heard from someone, somewhere. This isn’t the Middle Ages or the 18th or 19th century when such cloak and dagger machiavellian machinations were both probable and possible. So as the Faithful, we will simply need to be prayerful as we wait on the Lord to reveal and enact His own purpose during this season of transition, and watch humbly as His divine will is done.
It makes no sense dissecting the reports of the factory of lies. One has to look for the goals of the enemy