The 88 -year -old Sovereign Pontiff has experienced multiple health problems for several years, but says that he has never considered resigning from his post.
Weakened by bronchitis, Pope Francis was admitted to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome this Friday to take medical exams and receive care.
A declining health
The 88 -year -old, the head of the Catholic Church, who has undergone partial ablation of a lung in his youth, has posted declining health for several years. The sovereign pontiff is notably subject to respiratory infections, hip problems and knee pain.
The pope also injured in the chin during a fall in December, and also injured his right arm During a similar incident last month.
The Vatican said earlier in a statement that the Pope would go to hospital after completing his commitments on Friday morning, including a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
“This morning, at the end of the hearings, Pope Francis will be admitted to the Polyclinique Agostino Gemelli for necessary diagnostic tests and to continue in hospital the treatment of bronchitis which is still in progress”, said the press release.
The resignation of the excluded pope
The Holy Seat also said that the jubilee hearing scheduled for next Saturday was canceled and that a cardinal will replace him during the mass he was to preside over Sunday.
No details have been given as to the duration of the hospitalization of François.
François previously declared that he did not intend to withdraw from the papacywriting in his autobiography “Hope” that he had not envisaged this possibility, even after a major surgery of the intestine in 2021.
