Summary
Pope Francis, 88, remains hospitalized in Rome due to a worsening respiratory infection, described by the Vatican as a “complex clinical picture.”
Admitted on Friday with bronchitis, he was diagnosed with a polymicrobial respiratory infection, requiring changes to his treatment.
The pope has struggled with health issues in recent years, including past hospitalizations for bronchitis and surgery.
Not for nothing but the movie Conclave is fantastic and a useful primer of how the process we’re likely to witness fairly soon actually works.
I’m old enough to remember Pope John Paul I -> Oops. 33 days later… “Didn’t we just do this?” John Paul II.
For a crash course, you can watch the Vatican segment of Eurotrip, it’s in the last 20 minutes or so, iirc.