With the Pope in the hospital, it gives Italian gossip around who may come after that

The Pope is on the horizon in the daily Italian life that there are many expressions that illuminate until a dark event like his death.

“The Pope dies, another makes,” one goes, suggests how life continues.

But the most heard of frequently, when the Pope is sick, perhaps the darkest: “The Pope is fine until he dies.”

This was making tours while Pope Francis remained at Rome Jimili Hospital, fighting pneumonia and complex respiratory infection.

While the Vatican was making updates twice a day in his condition, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said they were “joking as usual” during a visit last week, all kinds of reports-correct and not-in Francis’ health.

They took their own life in the era of chat groups, conspiracy theories and themes on the Internet – not to mention the permanent Roman installation of the Pope, which may succeed it.

the Good impact

This does not help the Oscar -nominated film Good In theaters, everyone made an expert in mysterious rules and amazing drama involved in the papal elections. Or that Francis recently extended the duration of the Dean of the College of Cardinals instead of finding a new person to fill a major job during the next papal transfer. Or in 88, he is one of the oldest popes ever.

Francis still has ways to go to Pope Leo XII .

Francis often said that, too, he would think of resignation if his health made him unable to continue, although he recently said that the Pope’s function is for life.

Vatican correspondents usually prepare for next papal trips at this time of the year, but none of them has been confirmed yet. Instead, between medical updates, they prepare stories that look back in his life, only in a state.

“I think the Pope’s saying is fine until he dies,” always true, “said Giovanni Maria Vian, a former editor of the Vatican newspaper Loserfatore Romano, who knows how the Vatican information is managed. “It is a very Roman way to speak, on the one hand, the traditional suspicion of the Romans and the Italians, but on the other hand, is a media outrage.”

The Vatican has not allowed any member of the Francis Medical Team to appear on the camera or submit detailed updates on his health, and no photos have been launched since February 14.

Rumors fuel video

But to understand the extent of the Pope in Italian life, one only needs to think about another tradition that the Italians have noticed by Italians: the annual Sanremo Song festival, a series for a week on Rai TV where viewers vote for the favorite viewers of rising singers who perform at night in Kitschy, Sometimes the Bawdy competition.

When it was broadcast last week, it topped the titles more than usual because Francis-patient is already with bronchitis but not yet in the hospital-appeared on the opening night in a video clip in advance, and a propaganda coup for Sanremo and the first for the Papoy.

When the famous Italian blog dagospia later claimed that the video was presented almost a year ago to another event, it erupted near the Observers in the Vatican. The clear deception indicated that Francis’s recent disease was much worse than it seemed, and raised questions about the papal hardness if an old video was issued without his knowledge.

As it turned out, Dagospia was a mistake. The video was legitimate, recently and recorded for Sanremo. But it was true that Francis’s bronchitis was actually worse. By the end of the week, he was taken to hospital due to lung infection that turned into pneumonia.

Although the episode emphasized the intuition that the papacy is a matter of general knowledge, interest and discussion here, which speculates the current Pope’s health and who may be the next is a national hobby.

“I am definitely very worried,” said Maurizio de Volco, who was treated on Tuesday in the same hospital. “I wish him a quick recovery and we pray deeply for him. The Pope is very good. The Pope is great! We hope it is with us for a long time to come.”

Conservative critics weigh

But elsewhere, Francis’s right-wing critics-are completely unpopular stories-in his condition. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Francis, who was expelled last year, revived his conspiracy theory on the legitimacy of Francis elections for the year 2013, and called for the CIA to investigate what he claims was a “deep state” conspiracy for his election.

Francis knows this dynamic well.

He told Slovakan Jesuit Circters in 2021, referring to what he learned while entering the hospital for surgery in the intestine. “I know that there are even meetings between the priests who believed that the Pope was worse than what was said. They were preparing to connect.”

A weak taste is publicly discussed by the highest or down in the papal bets for a future future, much less to start one planning. But separately, Rome suffers from such talks. Taxi drivers talk about this topic with passengers and doctors who suffer from patients and butchers with customers.

Candidates should be a baptized male and Catholic. Although it is not a clear condition, almost every back was Cardinal before his election.

The Pope is chosen by 120 Cardinals who should be under the age of eighty at the time or resignation of the Pope.

Currently, Francis holds. The bulletin said on Thursday that his overall clinical condition was “a little improvement” and that his heart was working well. Eat breakfast sitting on an arms chair and was working with helpers.

“There is greater transparency, but even this is incomplete,” said Christopher Pelito, professor of church history at Kane University in New Jersey. “Certainly, every person with parents and elderly ancestors said,” This pneumonia “before the Vatican did.”