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Title: POPE'S CONDITION WORSENING
Source: MSNBC
URL Source: http://TELEVISION
Published: Mar 31, 2005
Author: MSNBC TALKING HEAD
Post Date: 2005-03-31 15:53:10 by rowdee
Keywords: CONDITION, WORSENING, POPES
Views: 88
Comments: 4

Just announced as they are going into break that they are awaiting additional word with more details regarding the Pope's medical condition worsening.

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Vatican Says to Issue Statement on Pope Soon Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:53 PM ET Printer Friendly | Email Article | Reprints | RSS

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Thursday it would shortly issue a statement on the health of Pope John Paul after Italian media reported that his condition had suddenly deteriorated.

At least one Italian news agency was reporting that the Pope had suffered a worrying drop in blood pressure and had a fever.

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-31   15:56:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

MSNBC reporting the AP Wire is reporting high fever due to urinary condition.

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-31   15:57:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

How ironic if he catches the "A" train today.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2005-03-31   16:01:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

From AFP:

Friday April 1, 12:02 AM

Pope has lost 19 kilos (42 pounds) since operation

Pope John Paul II has lost 19 kilogrammes (42 pounds) in a few weeks and there is great concern over his chances of recovery, a Vatican source said as Church opinion-makers questioned whether he should carry on appearing in public.

Doctors began feeding the pontiff through a nasal tube on Wednesday, the Vatican announced, admitting that his recovery from a throat operation was "slow."

"He has lost an estimated 19 kilos" since undergoing an operation on February 24 to insert a breathing tube in his throat, said the source on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Four nurses were doing 24-hour shifts to take care of the once robust pope nicknamed "God's Athlete," the source told AFP.

There was "great concern" in the Vatican over the 84-year-old pope's chances of recovery, the source said.

The pope was visibly thinner and frail in his appearance at his window on Wednesday, and Vatican photographers and cameramen have been ordered to not take any close-up pictures of the pontiff during his appearances, the source said.

Church opinion-makers are divided over whether John Paul II should be seen in public, some saying it set an example of strength and others denouncing it as "spectacle."

"By parading the pontiff and his illness, you are making a spectacle out of him for the use and consumption of the world's public opinion," lamented Father Vincenzo Marras, editor of "Jesus" magazine, in Thursday's La Stampa.

Others, like Father Antonio Sciortino of Italy's "Christian Family" weekly, believe that through his appearances the pope's "message is strengthened to the point of the being able to touch the hearts of non-believers."

It is not clear if the nasal feeding tube will put an end to his bi-weekly appearances at his apartment window.

More than 70,000 people, many of them in tears, watched in a poignant silence as the pope tried but failed to speak out in his Easter Sunday blessing. The pope, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, has not spoken in public since his release from hospital on March 13, although the Vatican says he speaks in private.

"People share John Paul II's effort to try to communicate at any cost and are moved by his heroic testimony," said Sciortino in an interview also with La Stampa.

But Marras underlined that the appearances not only endanger the pope's frail health, "but even more seriously expose us to the spectacle of suffering, magnifying the papal figure to the detriment of the redeeming value" of Christ's suffering.

The pope's appearances have also raised concerns of a power vacuum in the Vatican. On Thursday, Vatican sources said the pope was to delegate a beatification ceremony of seven people scheduled April 24 -- the first time John Paul II would skip such a ceremony in his 26-year pontificate.

Top Vatican cardinals insist that the pope is completely lucid and is capable of governing the Church.

Some observers, though, have reported that the close circle of cardinals around the pope have made "a pact" to maintain the status quo until uncertainty over his health continues.

Even senior Church officials have begun to voice their concern. The bishop of the Dutch city of Breda, Martinus Muskens, said Thursday that the "situation cannot continue like this for a very long time."

"The pope gives, for the time being, the example of someone who fights against illness with great courage but the effects for the management of the X Church are profound, because the pope cannot react to anything."

But a key Vatican insider said the pope would not step down "whatever happens, whatever the evolution of John Paul II's illnesses."

"He will put an end to his mandate only when he will be called for God's judgment," said Vittorio Messori, author of several books on the Roman Catholic Church including one based on interviews with the pope.

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-31   16:12:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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