The Vatican announced this Wednesday that in the last hours there was an “aggravation“on the health conditions of the pope emeritus Benedict XVI, 95 years old, after Pope Francis asked during his weekly general audience for a “special prayer” for his predecessor, who is “very sick”.
“Regarding the state of health of the pope emeritus, for whom Pope Francis asked for prayers at the end of this morning’s general audience, I can confirm that in the last few hours there was an aggravation due to advancing age. For now, the situation remains under control. constantly monitored by doctorsThe director of the Vatican Press Office Matteo Bruni said in a note.
At the end of the general hearing, Pope Francis went to the monastery Mater Ecclesiae visits Benedict XVI. We join him in praying for the pope emeritus,” added Bruni.
“I would like to ask all of you for a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict, who silently supports the Church,” Francis said during the general audience he presided over this Wednesday in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.
“Let us remember him: he is very ill. Let us ask the Lord to console him and support him in this testimony of love until the end”, added Jorge Bergoglio regarding the German Joseph Ratzinger.
“A candle about to go out”
Ratzinger, born in Germany in the Bavarian town of Marktl in 1927, he had been elected the 265th pope of the Church in 2005, and resigned on February 28, 2013, giving life to the conclave that elected Bergoglio as the first Latin American pope, on March 13 of that year.
Recluse since his resignation in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, in the Vatican gardens, Ratzinger is being kept accompanied by his personal secretary, Georg Gaenswein.
With your health defined as “a candle about to go out” For years, Ratzinger left the Vatican for the last time in 2020, when he traveled to Germany to say goodbye to his brother Georg, who died shortly thereafter.
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