‘Five days after a tracheotomy to relieve breathing problems, Pope John Paul II was able to say Mass in his hospital room, meet with aides and continue initial sessions of speech therapy.
Catholic News Service reports that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who brought the pope some papers to work on, told reporters yesterday that the pontiff had […]
‘ During a trip to Austria, Pope John Paul II shuffled slowly through a center for the chronically ill. He leaned heavily on his cane as he spoke to the staff.
“Even in the frailty of the last hour,” the pontiff said at the Rennweg Hospice in Vienna, “human life is never meaningless or useless.”
His address […]
‘n 26 years of globe-trotting, Pope John Paul II has covered a distance roughly equivalent to three trips to the moon. Yet a longed-for visit to Russia has never come off - and there are doubts that it ever will.
In what could be the twilight of his papacy, a trip to close a centuries-old rift […]
‘Pope John Paul has spent a lifetime savouring the spoken word: as a young amateur actor, as a linguist with command of a dozen languages, and as pontiff, preaching in far-flung churches, airfields and stadiums. Now he is keeping silent on doctors’ orders.
A tracheotomy to ease a breathing problem has stilled his voice. For the […]
‘A crippled 4-year-old Iraqi girl and Pope John Paul are both praying for a miracle of healing, floors apart at Rome’s Gemelli hospital.
“As we are both in the same hospital, I hope that we both realise our dreams,” said Diar, partially paralysed by a bomb blast in the Iraqi city of Nassiriya last year.
Speaking through […]
‘Pope John Paul II has surprised worshippers by appearing at his hospital window as the Sunday blessing was read for him.
Appearing in a wheelchair, the Pope did not speak but performed the Sunday Angelus blessing from the Rome hospital where he is staying.
It was just a brief appearance but will raise hopes the Pontiff is […]
‘Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II made a surprise appearance from a hospital window Sunday, waving to the faithful just after a top Vatican (news - web sites) official on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica read a statement from the pontiff asking for prayers.
The 84-year-old pope was wheeled to a hospital window […]
‘Pope John Paul II appears to be recovering well from a tracheotomy, the Vatican announced Friday, saying he has been told not to speak for now, but was breathing on his own and even eating: 10 small cookies and yogurt, along with caffe latte, for breakfast the day after surgery.
In an unusually detailed medical briefing […]
‘Pope John Paul II’s traditional Sunday blessing will be performed by an aide because of ill-health, but the Roman Catholic Church leader will follow the ceremony closely from his hospital room, the Vatican said.
Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, the Vatican’s number three and “interior minister”, will lead the prayer and bless the crowds on behalf of the […]
‘Breaking a tradition he kept even after being shot two decades ago, Pope John Paul II will not lead Sunday prayers for the first time in his 26-year papacy as he recovers from a throat operation to help him breathe.
With the 84-year-old pontiff advised by attending physicians not to speak after surgery to insert a […]
‘As Pope John Paul II struggles with his second health crisis in a month, he is displaying something not usually associated with the dignity and solemnity of his office: a sense of humor.
“What did they do to me?” was the quip Vatican aides say he scrawled on a piece of paper Friday after he woke […]