{"id":8892,"date":"2025-02-21T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:03:06","slug":"pope-francis-somewhat-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/pope-francis-somewhat-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Somewhat-Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-02\/pope-has-restful-night-eating-breakfast-in-armchair.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20241028ff\/cq5dam-thumbnail-cropped750-422-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ANSA photo: 'Pope Francis has restful night at Rome's Gemelli Hospital'. In foreground, left, Stefano Pierotti's 2009 statue of Pope Saint John Paul II: 'Be Not Afraid'.  Via Vatican News, used w\/o permission. See https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agostino_Gemelli_University_Policlinic https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/16445\/statue-of-john-paul-ii-unveiled-at-hospital-where-he-recovered-from-assassination-attempt \"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pope Francis is at Rome&#8217;s Gemelli Hospital. Statue of Pope St. John Paul II in foreground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Francis has been popping up in my news feed this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More accurately, I&#8217;ve been seeing the headlines of news items and op-eds inspired by the pope&#8217;s current illness \u2014 and by culturally-normative assumptions about what popes are and what their job is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been following what Vatican News has been saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, basically, is that Pope Francis is sick. Doctors don&#8217;t expect him to drop dead at the moment. And he&#8217;ll most likely stay in Rome&#8217;s Gemelli Hospital for another week: at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-02\/pope-francis-gemelli-press-conference-alfieri-carbone-danger.html\">Doctors: Pope responding to treatment but not yet out of danger<\/a>&#8221; <br>Vatican News (February 21, 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-02\/pope-has-restful-night-eating-breakfast-in-armchair.html\">Pope has restful night, has breakfast in armchair<\/a>&#8221; <br>Vatican News (February 20, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m concerned about his health, of course. Which is part of why I&#8217;m including him in my daily prayers: along with our community&#8217;s priests, and my family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t, by the way, be too impressed by my daily routine including prayer. It&#8217;s part of my daily routine. Like flossing my teeth and eating. It&#8217;s an important part: really important. In the long run, more important than flossing my teeth. And that&#8217;s another topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve talked about popes, perceptions, and my native culture&#8217;s quirks before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/principles-priorities-politics-and-being-catholic\/\">Principles, Priorities, Politics: and Being Catholic<\/a>&#8221; <br>(September 21, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/the-pope-wasnt-arrested-or-im-not-making-this-up\/\">The Pope Wasn&#8217;t Arrested (or) I&#8217;m Not Making This Up<\/a>&#8221; <br>(January 11, 2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/infallibility\/\">Infallibility?<\/a>&#8221; <br>(July 30, 2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has been popping up in my news feed this week. More accurately, I&#8217;ve been seeing the headlines of news items and op-eds inspired by the pope&#8217;s current illness \u2014 and by culturally-normative assumptions about what popes are and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/pope-francis-somewhat-good-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Pope Francis has been popping up in my news feed this week. 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