News is breaking Saturday afternoon that Pope Francis, who has been in the hospital for over a week with an acute respiratory illness, has had a significant health setback and is now in critical condition. This situation is so serious that some are speculating the pontiff may now take the exceedingly rare option of resigning his role as head of the Catholic Church to make way for someone younger and healthier to assume the papacy.
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Vatican: The Pope is in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/o6pCP1JMyV
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The 88-year-old pope first entered Gemelli Hospital on February 14 with a “complex viral, bacterial, and fungal respiratory tract infection and then the onset of pneumonia,” which poses a serious threat to his health since he only has one fully functional lung. Concern began to grow when the…
