Pope Francis has long been up front about his health problems, eventual death

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Pope Francis has long been up front about his health problems, eventual death

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death, and personally directed that his doctors provide the fairly detailed daily updates that have punctuated his own battle with pneumonia.

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Pope fights fake news with unprecedented detail about health status

ROME – An old saying about the Vatican holds that “the pope is never sick until he’s dead,” and this position has held true in various cycles of papal health crises throughout recent history, until now, with Pope Francis’s current hospital stay. Throughout Francis’s nearly month-long hospital stay, one of the most noteworthy elements of the ordeal has been the unprecedented level of detail provided in his daily medical bulletins. Since the pope …

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He had revealed it in 2022. Shortly after his election in March 2013, Pope Francis had signed a letter of resignation "if ever his health would prevent him from exercising". A year after the beginning of his pontificate, Jorge Mario Bergoglio even defended the idea that one would get used to "the popes of the world".

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Rome— Pope Francis has written and spoken extensively about disease, aging and death, and has personally asked his doctors to provide daily and detailed updates on his battle against pneumonia. On Monday, good news was reported: Francis was no longer in imminent danger of death, but he needed to remain hospitalized for several more days to receive treatment. The 88-year-old pope is simply responding to the sometimes morbid interest in the health…

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VATICAN CITY — Death, even that of a pope, should not be seen as a tragedy but as a transition filled with Christian hope, the preacher of the papal household told members of the Roman Curia. “In these hours, we have all prayed for the Holy Father,” Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini said during his fourth Lenten meditation offered for the Curia. “What the Holy Father is experiencing and is living through is not something bad, no matter how it end…