Pope spends a quiet second night in the clinic

Vatican

Pope spends a quiet second night in the clinic

Usually Francis always has a big public appearance on Sunday at noon. But now he is in the hospital. How long is open.

According to his environment, Pope Francis also survived the second night in the hospital without complications. The 88-year-old looked at the television news in the evening and then spent a quiet night, it said. The head of 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide has been treated in a clinic in Rome since Friday. According to the Vatican, Francis suffers from a respiratory disease.

Because of his battered health, Francis also dispenses with the traditional Angelus prayer, which he usually holds in front of thousands of believers every Sunday at noon. The doctors would have prescribed “absolute calm”, the Vatican said. In the meantime, it was speculated that the prayer from the Gemelli Clinic in the west of Rome was transferred.

Born in Argentine, at the age of 88, he is now the second oldest Pope in history. For more than a week, he had been to look at that health is increasingly being troubled by him. His voice broke away several times on public appointments. He hardly left his place of residence in the Vatican. According to press reports, doctors have been recommending him for a long time to go to the hospital.

It is open how long Francis has to stay in the clinic. The Italian news agency Ansa reported on its environment that the stay could take until the middle of next week. As the successor to Benedict XVI. has been in office since March 2013. Only Pope Leo XIII. became even older according to the records of the Vatican: the Italian died in 1903 at the age of 93.