Pope John Paul II condition worsens

[imported_]

PJP II has been given what are erroneously called the "Last Rites," given to mortally or seriously ill people.

On a side not, I was once given Last Rites. I'm still alive. But the Pope's in worse condition as I understand.

[Link47]

Source: http://cnn.worldnews.print****.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+Vatican+source%3A%A0Pope+given+last+rites+-+Mar+31%2C+2005&expire=-1&urlID=13743136&fb=Y&url=http% 3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2005%2FWORLD%2Feurope%2F03%2 F31%2Fpope1%2Findex.html&partnerID=2006]CNN

Vatican source: Pope given last rites
Ailing pontiff suffers from high fever with urinary tract infection


VATICAN CITY (CNN) -- Pope John Paul II was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church late Thursday night as his health deteriorated, a Vatican source has told CNN.

The sacrament does not necessarily mean **** the pope is dying. Last rites -- also known as the sacrament of the sick or extreme unction -- are commonly given to people who are seriously ill as well. The pope received the sacrament after he was shot by a would-be assassin in 1981.

The pope is suffering from a high fever caused by a urinary tract infection, the Vatican confirmed earlier Thursday -- one day after revealing he had been put on a nasal feeding tube for nutrition.

The pope is taking antibiotics, a Vatican spokesman said.

Medical sources at Gemelli hospital in Rome, where the pope has been hospitalized twice since February, told CNN **** no provisions are being made for the pope to be readmitted for treatment. The Vatican has its own medical facilities where he could be treated.

Video of the Vatican showed **** the pope's apartments were darkened.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in a statement released Wednesday: "To improve his calorific intake and promote an efficient recovery of his strength, nutrition via the positioning of a nasal-gastric tube has begun."

The pope underwent a tracheotomy February 24 and still has a tube inserted in his windpipe to help his breathing.

Earlier Wednesday, the pope appeared at his studio window and blessed the thousands of faithful in St. Peter's Square.

He appeared alert during the four-minute appearance, which drew cheers from the crowd gathered beneath his window.

He raised his hand in blessing and made the sign of the cross as a Vatican official read greetings and prayers.

A microphone was raised to his face as he tried to speak, but the words were not clear.

The pope has spent a total of 28 days in two stints at Gemelli hospital in the past two months.

On Monday the pope skipped the post-Easter Angelus prayer for the first time in his 26-year papacy.

The 84-year-old pope suffers from a number of chronic illnesses, including crippling hip and knee ailments, and Parkinson's disease, a progressive neurological disorder **** can make breathing difficult.

Throughout his various illnesses and brushes with death, even after the assassination attempt, the pope always said his life was in God's hands.

The pope's death, whenever it comes, will leave "very large gap ****'s going to have to be filled," said Monsignor Kevin Irwin of Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

"His illness has given us time to prepare ourselves," he said Thursday. "On the other hand, **** is going it be a very, very significant papacy to follow.

"**** man made the papacy bigger than life," he said. "He is a man who has been an international traveler involved in many relations with other faiths."

CNN's Alessio Vinci contributed to **** report.

I think they are giving him his last rights incase he does die (which he probobly will soon). I feel sorry for him though. As much as I despise the catholic church, **** Pope was really a great guy and he's had a great life. I wish him the best in the afterlife.

[ April 01, 2005, 09:17 AM: Message edited by: Link47 ]

[The Missing Link]

^ God dammit, hide your URL behind a [url] tag; you're stretching the bloody forum.

It honestly doesn't sound like he's doing too terribly well, and I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't make it through the end of the year. Here's hoping for his future, wherever it guides him.


"There are some who call me... Link?"
"Carpe Gaium Domesticum!" (Seize the Cucco!)
Zelda: The Grand Adventures | Triforce MUCK
ザ行方不明リンク
悪いユウモアの賢人

[Serial Miller]

Board isn't stretched for me. Are you on that piece of **** Firefox?

[Erdawn Il Deus]

Originally posted by Deus Ex Machina:
Are you on that piece of **** Firefox?

No, you suck. Now make me a sammich!

[The Missing Link]

Originally posted by Deus Ex Machina:
Are you on that piece of **** Firefox?

You don't like it? Talk to the eye candy.



"There are some who call me... Link?"
"Carpe Gaium Domesticum!" (Seize the Cucco!)
Zelda: The Grand Adventures | Triforce MUCK
ザ行方不明リンク
悪いユウモアの賢人

[[sage]]

*stares at firefox picture* Oh... sorry for the pope. *continues staring.

[Serial Miller]

If it can't manage to do a proper text-wrap, it's crap. Deal.

[The Missing Link]

I think Internet Explorer is bad for you.

Pleased to meet you. My name is Mozilla Firefox.

Now get back on topic.


"There are some who call me... Link?"
"Carpe Gaium Domesticum!" (Seize the Cucco!)
Zelda: The Grand Adventures | Triforce MUCK
ザ行方不明リンク
悪いユウモアの賢人

[Serial Miller]

Do somethin' bout it. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Beam Yosho the Drunkard]

Obviously, browsers are more important than the Pope.

[Luigi007 wants a new PDN]

It appears so.

**Looks at the Fox Girl picture** Wow, nice o.o

They're saying the Pope may pass away today. Pretty sad.



[ April 01, 2005, 07:28 AM: Message edited by: Luigi007. Again, just Luigi007. ]

[Link47]

So anyway,
Source: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050401/D896KSD80.html

Pope Said Conscious, in Grave Condition

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II suffered heart failure and is in "very grave" condition, the Vatican said Friday, but it said he was lucid and spent the morning celebrating Mass and receiving top aides, asking one to read him the biblical account of Christ's crucifixion and burial.

Spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls choked up with tears as he told reporters about the pope's worsening condition. He said the 84-year-old pontiff had been "informed of the gravity of his situation" and decided to remain in his apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square, where thousands of pilgrims gathered to pray for him.

John Paul participated in Mass and received some top aides Friday morning, Navarro-Valls said.

"The pope is still lucid, fully conscious and extraordinarily serene," Navarro-Valls said. He said the pope had unstable blood pressure and remained in "very grave" condition.

Among the top church officials who gathered at his bedside was Archbishop Paolo Sardi, the Vatican vice chamberlain who runs the Holy See between the death of a pope and the election of a new one.

Thousands stood vigil on the square outside, many tearfully gazing up at his third-floor window, and millions more around the world paused to pray for him.

In Wadowice, Poland, people left school and work early and headed to church to pray for their native son.

"I want him to hold on, but it is all in God's hands now," said 64-year-old Elzbieta Galuszko at the church where the pope was baptized in Wadowice, southern Poland. "We can only pray for him so he can pull through these difficult moments."

In the Philippines, tears streamed down the face of Linda Nicol as she and her husband asked God to grant John Paul "a longer life." Muslims in France were praying for the pontiff because he was a "man of peace," said Dalil Boubakeur, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith.

Navarro-Valls said John Paul asked aides to read him the biblical passage describing the final stage of the Way of the Cross, the path **** Christ took to his crucifixion. In **** stage, according to the Bible, Christ's body was taken down from the cross, wrapped in a linen shroud and placed in his tomb.

Navarro-Valls said the pope followed attentively and made the sign of the cross.

"**** is surely an image I have never seen in these 26 years," Navarro-Valls said. Choking up, he walked out of the room.

John Paul's health declined sharply Thursday when he developed a high fever brought on by the infection.

On Thursday afternoon, the pope suffered heart failure and a condition called "septic shock" during treatment for the infection, the Vatican said Friday, but it denied an Italian news report **** he was in a coma.

The pope received the sacrament for the sick and dying on Thursday evening. Formerly called the last rites, the sacrament is often misunderstood as signaling imminent death. It is performed both for patients at the point of death and for those who are very sick - and it may be repeated.

The Rome daily La Repubblica reported Friday **** the sacrament was administered by John Paul's closest aide, Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, who serves as his private secretary. Dziwisz had given the pontiff the same sacrament on Feb. 24 just before the pope underwent a tracheotomy to insert a breathing tube in his throat at the Gemelli Polyclinic hospital, the newspaper said.

Italy's Apcom news agency reported Friday morning **** the pontiff had fallen into a coma, but the Vatican dismissed the report.

Among the aides John Paul received Friday were Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican's No. 2 official; Undersecretary of State Archbishop Leonardo Sandri; the pope's vicar for Rome, Cardinal Camillo Ruini; his doctrinal chief, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger; the Vatican foreign minister, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo; and American Cardinal Edmund Szoka, the governor of Vatican City.

The pontiff was attended to in his apartment by the Vatican medical team, and provided with "all the appropriate therapeutic provisions and cardio-respiratory assistance," the Holy See said.

It said the pope was being helped by his personal doctor, two intensive care doctors, a cardiologist, an ear, nose and throat specialist and two nurses.

Heart failure occurs when the heart no longer has the strength to pump blood through the body, and is a sign **** the body's cardiac system is failing.

Dr. Paolo Nardini, a Rome physician who is not part of the pope's team, said a heart attack affects only the heart, while heart failure signals a "breakdown of the entire system, basically uncurable."

Dr. Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said septic shock "puts a phenomenal strain on the heart."

In a statement Friday, Weissberg said **** "those already suffering from heart disease - including those with heart failure - are even more susceptible to septic shock. Infection triggers a profound loss of blood pressure, depriving organs around the body of their vital blood supply and putting an enormous strain on the heart."

Even the fittest patients need special care and medicine to survive, he said.

Ruini said he visited John Paul early Friday and found him "profoundly serene and fully lucid."

"I prayed with him for a moment which profoundly moved me. Certainly the pope has completely left himself in God's hands. I invite all Romans and Italians to intensify prayers for him in **** moment," Ruini told private TG5 television.

He asked Italians to pray for John Paul, and said a special Mass for the pope would be held at 7 p.m. at the basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. The patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Scola, also planned a Mass in St. Mark Basilica at the same time.

Hospitalized twice last month following two breathing crises, and fitted with a breathing tube and a feeding tube, John Paul has become a picture of suffering.

His 26-year papacy has been marked by its call to value the aged and to respect the sick, subjects the pope has turned to as he battles Parkinson's disease and crippling knee and hip ailments.

It is not clear who would be empowered to make medical decisions for an unconscious pope. The Vatican has officially declined to comment whether John Paul has left written instructions.

[Serial Miller]

Originally posted by Beam Yosho the Drunkard:
Obviously, browsers are more important than the Pope.

He's old and dead. I should say so.

[Alph]

Well the pope's dead.And on April fools day.


And I can post here.

[Link47]

He's not dead yet, just getting close.

[Serial Miller]

Fine. Mostly dead.

[Jonathan Good]

He should read the message of Sardis in the book of Revelations, and play some chess. Also, I once heard on the news about women selling their eggs online as if it were a sperm bank, but they should use **** idea for stem cell research. Could the hate of pregnancy be the cure of Parkinsons disease? I think so.

[ April 01, 2005, 04:52 PM: Message edited by: Yuji Naka ]

[The Missing Link]

There was a rumour out earlier that he was dead. But the Vatican is denying it, but they could just be waiting until a more opportune time to reveal it.

I honestly think that, if he survives this bout, he won't last the year.


"There are some who call me... Link?"
"Carpe Gaium Domesticum!" (Seize the Cucco!)
Zelda: The Grand Adventures | Triforce MUCK
ザ行方不明リンク
悪いユウモアの賢人

[Link47]

They're probobly waiting for Robert Landon to find the anti-matter.