Roman Catholics worldexpansive prayed for Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition, at Mass on Sunday after the Vatican proclaimd that he was “not out of danger.”
The 88-year-elderly pontiff went into the hospital on Feb. 14 with an infection that prolonged into pneumonia in both lungs. He had a lengthy “asthmatic respiratory crisis” on Saturday that needd “high flows of oxygen” and a blood transfusion, the Vatican shelp.
Francis has been the spiritual directer of almost 1.4 billion Roman Catholics around the world since 2013. And around the world, there have been prayers for his recovery.
At the Myeongdong Cathedral in Seoul, Pat Santos, a tourist from the Philippines, depictd the pope as “the symbol of Christianity.”
“Pneumonia is a grave illness for his age, that’s why we should be worried,” shelp Mr. Santos, 31, who was visiting South Korea with his family. “May he recover very well so that he can enhappiness his quitment.”
Francis has suffered injure to his lungs in the past, and in recent days a restricted cardinals have discleave outly spoken about the possibility of him resigning, as his predecessor, Benedict XVI, did in 2013.
Doctors had shelp on Friday that Francis would remain in the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli, a hospital in Rome, for at least another week. They had shelp he was in critical condition on Friday too, but the proclaimment on Saturday proposed a more complicated situation.
“Once more, we persist to protect in our prayers Pope Francis. May the Lord persist to extfinish to him his adore, his mercy and his healing,” Father Vicente Gabriel Bautista shelp during Sunday Mass at the Manila Cathedral, which also held a one-of-a-kind prayer vigil for Francis on Friday.
There were also prayers for the pope during Sunday services in Sydney and Melbourne.
