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February 01, 2005

Has the Pope Passed Away?

 

 

The Pope, as many of you know, has been hospitalized with the flu. Fox News is reporting that a few hours ago at around 4 a.m. local time a ranking church official was seen entering the hospital where the Pope is under care.

 

According to Fox, the Pope is said not to be "gravely ill", however his Parkinson's aggravated by age, a case of tracheitis and the flu have made it increasingly difficult for the pontiff to breathe unassisted. The Pope is 84 years old and was also hospitalized last year with the flu. While all indications are pointing to a short stay and recovery, John Paul has become increasingly frail and certainly at his age such matters should be watched closely.

 

 

UPDATE: Fox News says Pope doing fine, not in ICU. Whatever that visit by the church official in the middle of the night was, it portended not a thing unseemly. (For those of you living in remote parts of Louisiana, it wasn't the "big one", Martha.) Blogbat of course is happy to hear the news since we were worried perhaps one of the white doves flitting about him the other day had blown a poison dart in his direction or secretly spiked his Brötchen und Käse with some unkindly substance, or that all that Alfred Hitchcock bird action had blown out a fuse or two. Or three.

 

Blogbat wishes the Pontiff a speedy recovery (and hopes he henceforth refrains from snipe hunting).

 

 

Posted by Martin at February 1, 2005 10:37 PM

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