The Pope’s return to the Vatican, After 38 days admitted to the Gemelli Polyclinic of Rome for a serious respiratory infection, marks a new phase in its pontificate, in which Francisco, so fond of the proximity of the faithful and exhausting worker, must change many habits.
This new stage, which will not be exempt from “surprises”, according to Cardinal Argentino, Víctor Manuel Fernández, very close to the Pope and also He has denied that the pontiff think of giving up, He will begin with at least two months of “Protected Convalence”, in the words of his reference doctor in the Vatican, Luigi Carbone.
At that time, the 88 -year -old pontiff and who during his hospitalization suffered two crises in which “his life was in danger”, You will have to continue with your pharmacological treatment and motor and respiratory therapies, you must continue using oxygen and also save rest, away from narrow contact with people.
Doctors’s decision comes after two weeks of stable improvement, Practically since the doctors raised the reserved diagnosis considering that his life was no longer “imminent danger” and after two serious crises that put him on the verge of death.
The fact that recovery will need time and In the hospital there is a high risk of infectionmuch greater than in his residence, and Francisco’s intense desire to return to the Vatican, considering that there was a risk that a longer stay demoralized him.
“It is very happy (…) it has been asking for four days, when it comes out, he revealed at the press conference in which the Alta Carbone was announced on Saturday, who will deal with the “protected convalescence” that Francisco will continue in his residence of the Santa Marta house.
The Vatican is equipped for emergencies, as Carbone recalled, but now the important is that the Pope restrues his encounters, Especially with groups and children, but not only: you should also avoid meetings with collaborators, friends and faithful beyond what is necessary.
That seems the greatest risk given the nature of the pontiff, whose imprint known as “the Francisco style”, reappeared today, When, on the way back to the Vatican, the delegation headed by the utility in which the Pope was traveling, with the nasal cannulas to receive oxygen on, changed the route.
In any case, the Church seems to prepare to assume “another way of being potato”, in the words of Cardinal Anders Arborelius, Archbishop of Stockholm and member of several dicasteries of the Roman curia.
“After such a disease, Francisco may not travel, he will not be able to attend many meetings. It will be rather a Pope in prayer, it will lead a more hidden life, quieter. It will have to be less communicative, but will focus on the most important things: your words will have more weight “, says in the newspaper” Repubblica.
For Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Vice Dean of the Cardinalio College, “perhaps Francisco cannot receive people for some time, or at least have to reduce your audiences. But you can always receive roles and documents from all over the world. And continue to rule the church, “according to” Corriere della Sera “.
In any case, Everything will depend on the recovery that begins this Sunday. In the Gemelli, Francisco has been an “exemplary patient” and has “followed all the advice,” according to doctors. Now we will have to see if it is still in the Vatican.