Deja vu all over again as Yogi Berra used to say.
PopeWatch: Day 21
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I would love to hear or read the opinion of someone with the requisite medical knowledge to comment upon the repeated claims by the spokespeople that Francis is working every day, in his condition. I find that assertion questionable, at best. The usual suspects online are already claiming he is either unconscious or has passed on, and are “demanding” to see live video with timestamps to prove what the Vatican is claiming. Very interesting.
In any event, prayers continue for him and for the next Conclave, whenever it may be.
“Stable” Yeah.
BTW thanks for the prayers. My Dad is stable and now in a skilled nursing facility. We don’t know how long it will last, but he’s comfortable now (and through with the COVID and mild heart attack on top of that). Unlike the Vatican, we won’t pretend.
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My dad recovered from pneumonia and was on high-flow oxygen for at least a year. He could get around and “do work” if that means greeting people, signing things, short conversations. Pneumonia takes a lot out of you, even if you’re young and healthy, and when I wrote this out at first I wrote that he “rebounded” from pneumonia, but there’s no rebounding, just slow recovery if that.