The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Pope Francis will not participate in the scheduled events during the weekend.
The Vatican said on Monday that Francis was accepted in Policlinico A. Gemelli, a medical facility in Rome, on Friday, and a series of tests indicated a “complex clinical photo.”
The doctors changed the drug, accordingly, and on Monday evening, the Vatican said that his condition was “stable” and that he had no fever.
The Vatican said that Francis had “a multi -respiratory infection. This means that the Pope has a mixture of microbes, such as viruses or bacteria, affecting his lungs or another part of the respiratory system.
The Vatican said that the Pope will not attend the events of deacons, scheduled for this week, canceling the audience on Saturday and delegating the Vatican introduction to celebrate the Mass on Sunday. Last week, Francis was unable to attend another scheduled event, for artists, in the Vatican.
This is the fourth time that Francis remained in Jimili Hospital. In 2021, he underwent colon surgery there. It was accepted due to a breathing infection in 2023, but he returned home after three days. He was taken to the hospital again a few months later to undergo abdominal surgery for hernia.
Last February, he underwent diagnostic tests at Gemili Hospital after a slight flu. When he was a young man, he had the upper lobe of his right lung, and he is subject to influenza attacks and bronchitis during the cold winter months. His medical challenges have increased in recent years. Due to knee problems and sciatica pain, it often uses a wheelchair, walking or cane.
Francis’s connections have increased since the beginning 2025 Jubilee -A year of faith and atonement for sins, and the sins that occur every quarter of a century-which opened on the eve of Christmas.
Millions are expected to perform Hajj to the Vatican this year, and the date of the jubilee events will be determined for different groups of people during the next ten months.