Anxious prayers while Pope Francis persists in critical conditions
The Vatican city is an anxious place. The clergy keep their phones from their cushions. The journalists, crammed in the press office of the Santa See, open and -mail with trepidation. The faithful began to gather waiting in Piazza di San Pietro.Everyone awaits the final bulletins from the Vatican on condition of Pope Francis, who remains critical after being brought to the hospital 11 days ago with bronchitis that developed in lungs in both lungs. On Monday afternoon, hours before the Vatican reported a "light improvement", the Vatican's officials 'phones buzzed with texts that falsely report Francis' death.Francis, who now has the beginning of renal insufficiency and infections, could still recover. Tuesday evening, the Vatican said that Francis was in "critical but stable" conditions. In...