US EditionDoctor treating Pope Francis says team considered ending treatment so he could die
- The medical team treating Pope Francis considered stopping his treatment to allow him to die, according to Doctor Alfieri.
- Alfieri stated, 'We had to choose whether to stop and let him go or force it and try with all the drugs and therapies possible.'
- Pope Francis requested the truth about his condition from the beginning and wanted no details changed or omitted.
- The pontiff experienced several breathing crises, with two incidents putting his life in danger, according to Alfieri.
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Sergio Alfieri has confessed that when the Pope had been in the medical center for 14 days it was the most critical moment of the whole process since he could not breathe and suffered a strong bronchospasm Read
Ordaining women as deacons? This dossier, like that of preaching during Mass, has been open for more than fifty years, shortly after Vatican Council II. Francis moved a few lines, without yielding to the question of female diaconate.
Pope Francis’ Health Situation Was at One Point So Dire That Doctors Contemplated Stopping the Treatment and ‘Letting Him Die in Peace’
Pope Francis faced a critical health crisis that led doctors to consider halting treatment, raising profound questions about his future and the impact on the Catholic Church.
Pope's Doctors Were Close to Halting Treatment
Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican on Sunday, after being hospitalized for more than a month and suffering four "respiratory crises" as he battled bronchitis, then double pneumonia. Now, doctors at Rome's Gemelli hospital reveal just how close to death the 88-year-old pontiff came, and how they had to...
Pope’s doctor calls recovery ‘miraculous,’ says Francis wanted to keep fighting
ROME – Pope Francis’s primary doctor during his hospitalization has said it was the pope himself who chose to keep trying different therapies when his life was most at risk, and has attributed the pontiff’s “miraculous” recovery, in part, to prayer. Speaking to Italian journalist Fiorenza Sarzanini with Italy’s newspaper of record, Corriere della Sera, Doctor Sergio Alfieri said the night of Feb. 28 was “the worst” night of the pope’s recent ord…
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