Editor’s Note: Regarding the very bad news for the Vatican coming out of the United States, see here. — Click the above image to read the Italian original, or click HERE to read the English translation.
The Press Release says that Pope Francis began choking, vomited and inhaled his vomit. Emergency measures had to be taken to clear his lungs: he has now been put on a breathing machine and a 48 hour watch to see if his lungs recover from this event.
Editor’s Note: And the Bishops of the United States won’t be able to bail the Vatican out, because, contrary to U.S. Govt. rules, they sued the U.S. Government to keep USAID monies flowing to their projects, but that caused immediate termination of all the contracts they had with the Government. Evidently they sued under direction of Pope Francis. Now the whole thing is going to blow up in his face. — Expect a new and more severe breathing crisis as soon as someone tells Pope Francis of his own complete failure. (Click images to read each news article) — Oh, wait, it seems Pope Francis was already told this afternoon because he nearly choked to death!
Editor’s Note: Please pray for these Friars. I know some of them personally. They invited me to join them a few years ago, but I know my vocation is to remain in the Roman Church and at Rome. Otherwise, I might have. They are blessed by God and their benefactors support them. Clear signs of great things to come, I believe. May God multiply them in grace and numbers!
Editor’s Note: Yesterday, on the 14th day of Pope Francis’ hospitalization the world broke out laughing, when Vatican News Italian Edition claimed that Pope Francis had been in hospital 12 days!
But now the joke really gets worse: as the English language version of this morning’s Press Release, for Feb. 28, 2025, says that he has spent a restful 15th night in hospital! (See screen shot above).
This means that in the space of 16 hours, Pope Francis has been in Gemelli hospital 3 more nights than he was reported to have been yesterday. He must be in a time-machine — that is the only rational explanation (Ed. note: to be totally sarcastic).
For those who cannot count: Pope Francis went into Gemelli Hospital on Friday afternoon, February 14, 2025. So, he has spent only 14 nights in the hospital, as of this morning Feb. 28th.
The English language Release then misinforms, by claiming that reports from yesterday already have declared that Pope Francis has come out of the most critical phase of his recovery.
I do not know about Vatican News — I guess they do not read their very own Press Releases which never said such a thing — but it seems that they are reading Il Messaggero, the newspaper, to find out what is going on in Gemelli hospital and have been cut out of the loop.
Either that or they were told to push the propaganda, which cites no one by name and publishes a guess as fact.
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Editor’s Note: It almost appears that the Vatican News Press Releases are not just a simple joke, but are a psyop to play with the minds of readers. Because this afternoon, the latest Release says that Pope Francis has been in hospital 12 days. — But today is Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, and he went into hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. And if you count the full periods of 24hours each, he has been in hospital 13 * 24-hr periods. If you count days, even partial, its 14 days.
So where was he on the missing day that he was not at Gemelli? Or is the Vatican so sloppy that they cannot count on the fingers of two hands?
This morning, we were told that he had new tests taken. But today there are no results reported. Likewise, we are told Pope Francis’ condition has slightly improved, but we are not told what this statement refers to. It is not said that his condition is stable. It is not said that his condition is critical.
We are told that he is still taking air, and this time the kind of mask being used is named. That does not sound like an improvement, because the other day it was said he was receiving oxygen from a breathing tube inserted just under the nose.
However, it is still said that a prognosis cannot yet been given.
When was he taken off antibiotics?
This is sloppy reporting at the very least. Or a sloppy cover up and the best.
But in the end it will cause journalists to stop asking questions, because the Press Releases become more and more absurd.
For the Italian original, click the image above. For a Google translation into English, click here.
Finally, Il Messaggero — the newspaper which said Pope Francis had an “inferzione” — is now reporting that Pope Francis has left the critical stage of illness and is on his way to recovery. But the official press release says nothing of the kind.
This makes me recall the quip of a former head of Vatican News, in regard to Pope John Paul II’s deteriorating health: The pope is always in good health, until he dies.
Editor’s Note: This article gives a lot of insight into why we are seeing the most bizarre series of Press Releases about Pope Francis’ health. — The Vatican is not only on the verge of bankruptcy, but the deficits have been so large since 2022, that the Vatican has refrained from reporting them.
If this is the attitude in regard to finances, how much more can we project that it is also the attitude to the Pope’s health?
In other words, when things are dire, say nothing or put a rosy face on it.
And if this interpretation is true, Pope Francis is not getting better, he is deteriorating and soon the press release will read:
In addition, from the above report, it appears that Pope Francis’ heated argument with his closest financial advisers in the Roman Curia led him to have his breathing crisis. They want the Vatican to take loans to stave off bankruptcy, but Pope Francis would not have it.
And this leads to another possible psychological motive for the hospitalization and its strange press releases: that Pope Francis is trying to rebuild his moral authority through suscitating an outpouring of sympathy for a sick old man, so that when he returns to the Vatican, he can push through his measures and remove obstacles (like all those who gloated over his pending death).
Editor’s Note: The charade continues with a one line press release, this time with a phrase which is more positive than yesterday: “The Pope slept well during the night and is now resting”!
But today there is no mention that his condition is stable!
It has been reported that Cardinal Mueller called Pope Francis by phone and urged him “not to resign”. But it appears that the phone call was to determine if the Pope was in fact in the hospital and still alive.
The mere fact that no one outside of his closest circle has been allowed to verify if he is alive, is most strange, since he is not in a Quarantine Area.
Also, the absence of any photographs showing Pope Francis in hospital, during these last 14 days is beyond imagining, since Pope Francis likes everyone to see his photos.
We are constantly being told that the Pope is fine. But the way it is being reported only engenders doubt that the situation is quite different.
In fact, antibiotics for infections are normally given only during a 10 day period, after which their administration has to be stopped, lest it cause severe damage to the biota necessary for human life, which live inside the human body. Yet, the Pope has ostensibly been on anti-biotics for nearly two-weeks. Something does not add up.
To read the original Italian version of this morning’s news release, click the image above. To read a google translation, click here.
I predict that the phrase “The Pope has slept well and is now resting” to go viral in comical memes and tropes in the future, for it clear we are witnessing a Circus, produced by a Vatican Staff which has not the foggiest idea either of the modern notion of transparency, or of the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ: “Let your ‘yes’ be a yes, and your “no” a no; everything else comes from the devil”.
Tomorrow, or the next, day, we can expect to see a “Donate to the Vatican” button appear on these press releases, because grifting always follows mendacity.
Take Aways: Craig Unger says “This is the end of Nato; the end of the North American Alliance with Europe”
Editor’s Note: It has been nearly a month since the vice-president of the Italian Senatorial Commission looking into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi concluded that Pope John Paul II was personally involved in the case.
And presto-magico, the Vatican Commission for the Interpretation of Legal Texts has published a letter, directed to an anonymous Bishop in the U.S.A. which explicitly says that there should not be published the names of credibly accused sexual abusers, ESPECIALLY if they are already dead, since the dead deserve the rights to their good name and cannot defend themselves. (see article above).
I say non-binding, because the opinion has not been expressed in a juridical act, but only in a consultory act to a private individual.
Aside from the fact that The Pillar gets the name of one of the Vatican Officials wrong: Mons. Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, is the correct name, the instruction which is merely a non biding opinion, regards two separate things: the living and the dead.
As as student of history, however, I find it quite shocking that the Vatican is attempting to cleanse the historical record, by affirming the dead should not have their names published on lists of potential criminals, since unlike the living, the dead no longer have need of having their names protected, by lists published in this world, when they are in the next.
And while I have the greatest respect for Monsignor Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru — as I keep his canon law commentary on my desk at all times — I think the Vatican document, of which he is the co-author, fails to take into account, that in the midst of great public crises, caused by secret crimes and associations, even the right to a good name in this life should cede to public interest, because parents have the right to protect their children, and their pastors have the grave and solemn duty to inform them even of potential threats of secret crimes and associations.
This is why the publication of lists of “credibly” accused is not only useful but just, if the term “credibly” is understood and observed in the strictest sense of the term.
Like capital punishment, that some innocents are put to death is not the fault of the penalty being established, but of the humans in charge of the process. Abolishing Capital Punishment is not the solution, imposing the liability of capital punishment upon all those who misused the process is: including prosecutors and judges.
Likewise, once a “credible accusation” is proven no longer worthy of trust, those publishing the accusation should repair the good names of those accused by a similar or even more noteworthy press release or publication. That too is justice.
And, again:
Editor’s Note: The report tonight, from Vatican News, is that the Pope is slightly improving: his renal failure has ceased, his blood tests confirm the improvement from yesterday, the CAT scan from yesterday shows “a normal evolution of his pulmonary inflammatory picture”.
If his light renal failure and anemia were caused by the pharmacological therapies he is receiving, then they would subside when these therapies are reduced. Nothing has been said about the Pope having these issues before. So perhaps this is what is going on.
However, his bad bruises and night-time falls, over the past several months, argue the contrary, namely, that he has suffered from anemia for quite some time. And if so, it is not reasonable to expect a cure for that with a few blood tests and transfusions. On the other hand, if his pharmacological therapies are being reduced, this will only allow the poly-microbic infection of his lungs (which his doctors said was “incurable but controllable”) to return with greater force.
Also, if the Pope is improving, why was he put back on a high-concentration oxygen therapy, a thing which if prolonged can damage the lungs?
And what is a “normal evolution of a pulmonary inflammatory picture”. Normally pneumonia kills you. Being cured of it is not something which normally happens, since the cure of every disease fights against it.
Also, it is said that Pope Francis underwent physiotherapy to help him breathe: this includes exercises which teach a person how to use the musculature of his thorax properly, so as to breathe more efficiently. It is hard to understand how an 88 year old does not know how to breathe correctly, unless his mental awareness is failing or his body has become so bloated that he has to be taught how to breathe better in such an extreme condition of body.
From all of this one must objectively conclude that Pope Francis still has anemia and the statement that his blood tests confirm the improvement of his blood health is a lie, or his lungs are deteriorating and not improving.
And this means, that if he has another breathing crisis he could literally suffocate to death, if not in a hospital when it happens. And this argues that he will have to abdicate.
So, the truth seems better stated in these terms: that the Pope is NOT improving in those areas which are critical.
And since it was reported that he has critical problems which are causing a complex critical condition, the continued failure to detail what these problems are other than pneumonia, leaves the door open to doubts.
From a journalistic point of view, however, I really hope that the news about Pope Francis’ health has not been such a flop, that the doctors would change his therapies so as to be able to publish positive news reports the next day.
Click the image above to read the Italian original. Or click HERE to read an English translation of the Italian version of the release. The actual English official version is much shorter and designed to prevent any such questions or criticisms as I have made here enter the mind of the reader.
