The Pope has bronchitis again and doctors are worried about an agenda filled with activities

The continuous coughs and other signs that the problems in the airways have returned to disturb the doctors, who confirmed another diagnosis of bronchitis of the bronchitis of the Papa Francisco.

A Recurrent disease that in 2023 forced to take him to the Gemelli hospital where he was cured of a pulmonary inflammation with antibiotics. The disease has been presented in each winter and now puts at risk the great events planned for the jubilee of 2005.

The main problem is how to rest more to the Pope, than instead of reducing he must have increased his presence, his speeches, his dialogues, his encounters with thousands of faithful because the jubilee machine gets tense and is already fully functioning.

This Friday and Saturday all the Pope’s audiences take place exclusively in the house of Santa Marta, the Vatican hotel where Jorge Bergoglio stays. There are no meetings provided for in the Apostolic Palace.

The Saturday will be presented in the Vatican the Jubilee of the Armed Forces for which thousands of uniformed people from all over the world who have registered to cross the Holy Gate of the Jubilee have traveled.

The Pope will leave Santa Marta on Sunday to preside over the mass that will take place in the Basilica of San Pedro with the presence of thousands of uniformed.

Francisco does not want to miss these key meetings of the celebration of Holy Year 2025 in Rome. “The jubilee year is a time of redemption and rebirth, marked by decisions of strong symbolic character that still maintains a disarming news.”

The Pope in his interventions cites the bases of the jubilee. The rest of the earth; the dams of debts; social justice against inequalities, the liberation of slaves.

In his interventions he faces the big topics. Sometimes the texts must read their assistants, because Heavy breathing and frequent coughs prevent you from pronouncing the long documents.

In addition to bronchitis, the Pope suffered two mishaps in his Santa Marta accommodation at the beginning of the year. Two falls. One caused a hematoma in the chin, the other forced to immobilize his right arm for several days.

The future is full of unknowns. In March 2023 he was hospitalized for three days at the Gemelli Hospital, where he overcame his problems in the airways that inflamed his lungs with an antibiotic treatment.

The interfuels mark some efforts. April 28 is expected in Venice. May 18 in Verona. Also A long trip to Asia is scheduled, now we’ll see. And the hypothesis of his trip to Argentina.

In this uncertain panorama of the jubilee year, speculation flourishes again; Especially who could be the next Pope. Less rumored about the possibility of Francisco resign and who are the favorite candidates to succeed in the next conclave.

This inevitable hypersensitivity was stimulated on Thursday by Francisco de’s decision Extend the mandate at the Sacred Cardinals College of Cardinal Italian Giovanni Battista Re, 91, and Argentine Leonardo Sandri, 81as Dean and Vice Dean of the College, communicated by the Vatican press room. The decision is dated January 7.

The announcement immediately spread speculation about Francisco’s decision. Both cardinals were chosen five years ago for those Crucial charges In case of conclave by a group of cardinals-obispos.

In the intricate decisions of the conclave, the positions of the Cardinals Re and Sandri are key because in the first they are responsible for presiding over the crucial general congregations prior to the start of the conclave, a decisive moment in which the purple speak and listen, discover a candidate or discard another.

Many remember that in the congregations of the conclave that Jorge Bergoglio, the then Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires in March 2013, caused a deep favorable impression among many colleagues by explaining his ideas of how it was necessary to make changes in the church. His opinions put him in the race towards the election.