Bishops of Latin America and Spain ask to pray for the health of Pope Francis, after admission this Friday, February 14 to the Gemelli Polyclinic for the bronchitis he has suffered for some days.
“We invite the people of God to pray for the prompt recovery of our beloved Pope Francis. That Jesus, that ‘did everything well’ accompanied him at the moment when his health has come in less. Our Lady of Health, pray for Pope Francis. Amen! ”, Cardinal Luis Cabrera, Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador), said in statements.
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In his X account, the Archdiocese of Corrientes (Argentina) encouraged to pray “to Itatí’s tender mother to cover him with his mantle.”
The Holy Father entered the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic to continue “in the hospital environment his treatment against bronchitis”.
Let’s pray to Itatí’s tender mother to cover it with her mantle. pic.twitter.com/W6eZvrsxpW
– Archdiocesisctes (@arzobispadoctes) February 14, 2025
Mons. Juan Carlos ElizaldeBishop of Vitoria (Spain), invited in X to “pray in a special way for the Pope, who has been admitted to the hospital for respiratory problems. In unity in prayer, the Holy Father Francisco receives our closeness and our love in the best way. Let’s pray to keep the helm strongly. ”
The bishop of San Francisco (Argentina), Mons. Sergio Buenanuevashared the news of the Holy Father’s admission to the hospital and wrote in X: “That the Virgin takes care of you, #Papafrancisco.”
“From this morning we have been entrusting to the Holy Father, who has presented these health breaks in recent days. And we are attentive to the news that emerges from the Holy See, ”said Mons. Jesús González de Zárate, archbishop of Valencia and president of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV), at the press conference at the end of the Assembly of Venezuelan bishops.
On the other hand, the Peruvian Episcopal Conference (CEP) published a press release, in which its president, Mons. Carlos García Camader, invited “all the faithful and the people of good will to pray for the restoration of the health of the Pope’s health and entrusted the Holy Father Francisco to the Lord of Miracles and the divine protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ”
For his part, the archbishop of Santiago and Cardinal Primado de Chile, Fernando Chomali, assured ACI Press: “We are praying for the Holy Father. By the way that his enthusiasm, his pastoral heat, his spirit of service, will collaborate strongly for that he recovers as soon as possible and we have it in the midst of us. “
“The Holy Father is loved for his proximity to the most needy, the poorest, migrants, imprisoned, and the prayer of all those people, without a doubt that they will be heard by the Lord,” he said.
When presiding over a prayer with young Pope admitted with a lung infection, and we will be there. We send our affection. ”
According to the Diocese of Getafethe prelate stressed: “From here we tell the Pope that all Getafe young people are close to him, we are with him!”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.