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.