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Pope Francis' condition remains critical after suffering 'asthmatic respiratory crisis': Vatican

abcnews.go.com Pope Francis' condition remains critical after suffering 'asthmatic respiratory crisis': Vatican

Asthmatic respiratory crisis indicates the pope struggled to maintain a sufficient oxygen level when breathing on his own, according to medical experts.

Summary

Pope Francis experienced a critical asthmatic respiratory crisis, requiring oxygen and blood transfusions due to low platelets.

He remains alert but in more pain than the previous day.

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As an ex-catholic myself I don't like too much the Catholic church, but this dude wasn't that bad comparing to all other Popes, don't forget that millions of people listen and follows whatever he says. It would not be so funny if we get a nazi apologist Pope now, to be honest I hope he lives a bit more.
- Yeah, but "better than the other popes" was a very low bar. This one had better words, but not so many better actions.
  
  I think the point being made is that if he dies you are very likely to get someone far worst in a time where things are already at the brink.
  
  Do you even know anything he’s done? He is by far the most progressive pope there has ever been.
  
  Not even so, the supposedly progressive opinions he gave out were way overstated by the mainstream media. He was just rewording the "hate the sinner not the sin" BS
- That's a fallacy, or a strawman, or a scarecrow, I can't decide which of these.
  He's already as bad as
  a nazi apologist Pope
  , just in small ways.
  Saying that he's good because he's not doing the Musk salute is similar to saying Putin is not a belligerent fascist dictator because he has elections and doesn't have fascist ideology.
  They (Vatican) literally have a representative at dealing with oriental Catholic churches, that'd be Chaldean, Armenian Catholic etc churches. That representative is in practice as good as another ambassador to Azerbaijan. My paternal ancestors belonged to Armenian Catholic church, and as you understand something of historical value on that might be in Vatican or institutions\museums\whatever under its control.
  
  While I do not disagree with you I think you missed my point. Like it or not, when he dies we will have another Pope, and I can bet money that the church is going to take the opportunity of the current trend to put a Pope that literally does the "Musk salute" and keep pushing their agenda... and like I said millions of people care a lot about what the Pope has to say. The last thing we need right now is a Pope that openly and aggressively supports far right governments in his speech.
  
  The last thing we need right now is a Pope that openly and aggressively supports far right governments in his speech.
  I'd weigh this variant you fear same or less as a Pope who is saying all kinds of things for sufficient sums of money from all kinds of governments, maybe not limited to governments.
  Which would be similar to Francis, but Francis is dangerous in being subtle.

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