{"id":24605,"date":"2025-03-08T21:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/pope-francis-responding-well-to-treatment-vatican-says\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T21:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:22:35","slug":"pope-francis-responding-well-to-treatment-vatican-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/pope-francis-responding-well-to-treatment-vatican-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis responding well to treatment, Vatican says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Pope Francis, who has been battling pneumonia and bronchitis for more than three weeks, has shown a &#8220;good response&#8221; to treatment, the Vatican has said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">&#8220;The clinical condition of the Holy Father in recent days has remained stable and, consequently, indicates a good response to the treatment,&#8221; the Vatican said. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">&#8220;There is therefore a gradual, slight improvement&#8221;, it added. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The 88-year-old prayed on Saturday morning in the chapel of the <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2g5w8z8lko\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 beIoQm\">papal suite at Rome&#8217;s Gemelli Hospital<!-- --><\/a>, where he is being treated.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The Argentine pontiff has not been seen in public since entering the hospital, his longest stretch away from the public eye since his papacy began 12 years ago. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">He was admitted to hospital on 14 February after experiencing breathing difficulties  &#8211; and first treated for bronchitis before being diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">He is particularly vulnerable to pneumonia, an infection of the lungs that can be caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi, after he contracted pleurisy \u2013 an inflammation of the lungs \u2013 as a young man and had a partial lung removal.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The Pope&#8217;s doctors believe he is likely to face a long road to recovery, due to his age and medical history.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cjw27gnjjjyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, who has been battling pneumonia and bronchitis for more than three weeks, has shown a &#8220;good response&#8221; to treatment, the Vatican has said. &#8220;The clinical condition of the Holy Father in recent days has remained stable and, consequently, indicates a good response to the treatment,&#8221; the Vatican said. &#8220;There is therefore a gradual, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24607,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24605\/revisions\/24607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}