Top aides hit back against rumors of papal death, resignation

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Pope's doctors say Francis not in danger of death, cardinals push back against resignation rumors

Pope Francis' doctors believe the 88-year-old pontiff is not in danger of death at the moment, but that the therapy for his double pneumonia needs time to work and will require at least another week of hospitalization.

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Top cardinal says Pope Francis will soon return to Vatican, dismisses resignation rumors

'The Pope is recovering well; let’s not invent things,' said Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. 'One shouldn’t speak of retirement; in a few days he will return to the Vatican.'

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Top aides hit back against rumors of papal death, resignation

Several of Pope Francis’s top collaborators have hit back against rumors that Pope Francis’s health, while of concern, is declining as he marks one week in the hospital for treatment of bilateral pneumonia.

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Cardinals push back on rumors Pope Francis will resign while in hospital

“I do not like to speak about the health of the pope. It’s important to be discreet, not to run after rumors and fake news,” the French Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline said at a press conference today.

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Nuns pray next to the statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome’s Gemelli Hospital Feb. 20, 2025, where Pope Francis is admitted for treatment for a respiratory infection. (Photo: OSV News/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters) by Elise Ann Allen ROME (Crux) – Several of Pope Francis’s top collaborators have hit back against rumors that Pope Francis’s health, while of concern, is declining as he marks one week in the hospital for treatment of bilateral pn…

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The Dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re, today dismissed speculation that Pope Francis might resign. The influential cardinal assured that the pope would be back in the Vatican in a few days. The hospital said that it would soon be known how the pope is responding to new therapy after he was admitted last week with pneumonia.