Transparency to “avoid bulos”: the reason why Pope Francis wants his health status to know day after day

Since the Pope Francis Enter the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital (from Rome) on February 14, your medical history can follow minute by minute. And this is thanks to the express will of the Pontiff himself. “This depends only on the patient’s will,” he explains Jesus enough, editor chief of ‘digital religion’.

First, a Brief medical part in the morningin which we know how he has slept, if he is in humor, if he has had breakfast … and then A more extensive statement at 7:00 p.m. with details about its medical evolution.

Also, and in between, “there are some ‘off the records’ in which there are small brushstrokes or added about how the Pope is,” he adds a lot, as well as the newsletters of the Holy See on the activity of the Pope, who continues to work.

An informative opening that contrasts with the secrecy of other pontiffs, such as John Paul IIwho “the word Parkinson never pronounced. It was the elephant in the room,” says the journalist. Also Benedict XVI He chose to be discreet: in 2013, he underwent an operation to replace the pacemaker in the most absolute secrecy.

However, Pope Francis has decided Avoid bulos. In fact, during his first days in the hospital, false news already circulated saying that he had received the extremeunción.

The Pope does not use the Internet or watch television, but, despite this, his will is that we know his first -hand state.

Source: Lasexta

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