{"id":1788574,"date":"2022-12-28T11:48:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T16:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788574"},"modified":"2022-12-28T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T16:48:48","slug":"ask-the-lord-to-comfort-him-benedict-very-ill-pope-francis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ask-the-lord-to-comfort-him-benedict-very-ill-pope-francis-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ask The Lord To Comfort Him\u2019: Benedict \u2018Very Ill,\u2019 Pope Francis Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fask-the-lord-to-comfort-him-benedict-very-ill-pope-francis-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788574&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"Body\">VATICAN CITY\u2014Pope Francis has announced that his predecessor, Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI is \u201cvery ill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 95-year-old Benedict, who stepped down nearly 10 years ago, has been believed to be in poor health, but his successor\u2019s call for prayers for him confirmed the gravity of his illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">\u201cI would like to ask all of you for a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict who\u2014 in silence is sustaining the Church. Remember him, for he is very ill,\u201d During his Wednesday General Audience, the pope spoke. \u201cAsk the Lord to comfort him and sustain him in this witness of love for the Church, until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">In response to questions from the press regarding the status of Pope emeritus&#8217;s health, the Holy See Press Office released a statement through Matteo Bruni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">\u201cRegarding the health condition of the Pope Emeritus, for whom Pope Francis asked for prayers at the end of this morning\u2019s general audience, I can confirm that in the last few hours there has been an aggravation due to advancing age,\u201d Bruni stated. \u201cThe situation at the moment remains under control, constantly followed by doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Bruni stated that Pope Francis had left immediately after the Wednesday Audience in order to visit Benedict XVI at the Vatican Gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Benedict XVI resigned as papist in 2013, citing declining health that would prevent him from continuing the active ministry. Despite not having any precedent in the almost 2000 years of Church history&#8217;s nearly 2000 years, Benedict accepted the title \u201cEmeritus,\u201d They are not like those of retired bishops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">This month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pope-francis-says-he-wrote-resignation-note-in-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope Francis<\/a>The pope, who is now 86, was asked whether he intended to resign for health reasons. The pope said that he had already submitted a resignation document to the Secretary. He had. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2022-07\/pope-francis-interview-televisa-univision-resignation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">past interviews<\/a>, stated that he would take the title from his predecessor. \u201cEmeritus\u201dBut, I was asked this month whether the position of \u201cEmeritus pope\u201d The pope said that it would be a permanent institution. \u201cNo. I\u2019ve not touched that at all, nor has the idea crossed my mind. It seems the Holy Spirit has no interest in me taking care of such things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/benedict-xvi-s-health-deteriorates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rumors<\/a> are already flying around the curia as to the state of the Pope Emeritus\u2019 health. The Daily Wire has contacted Archbishop George Ganswein (long-time secretary and caretaker for Benedict XVI) and will continue to monitor developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY\u2014Pope Francis has announced that his predecessor, Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI is \u201cvery ill.\u201d The 95-year-old Benedict, who stepped down nearly 10 years ago, has been believed to be in poor health, but his successor\u2019s call for prayers for him confirmed the gravity of his illness. \u201cI would like to ask all of you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":1788577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7348,11950,12174,12173,6202,9590,9462,12172,9635,9592,3625,6195],"class_list":["post-1788574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-very","tag-ask","tag-benedict","tag-comfort","tag-daily","tag-francis","tag-him","tag-ill","tag-lord","tag-pope","tag-speaks","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}