What's this "double" pneumonia? Is it twice as bad as single? In both lungs instead of one?

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Originally posted by egregore:
What's this "double" pneumonia? Is it twice as bad as single? In both lungs instead of one?

Yes , both lungs .

"Once I had doub... duode... ducen... Decamilluple Pneumonia!
Yeah... that's it. I had Decamilluple Pneumonia, and was the only person to ever survive it, that's right, Decamilluple Pneumonia...

And I didn't even have any lungs. Yeah.... I had Gills! Like a fish.
And I married a Mermaid, That's ticket.
A Mermaid that looked just like Morgan Fairchild, and we had millions of children, and they all had gills and tails, and they all looked like me, like a fish, Yeah.

That's why all the fish look alike, because they look like me..."

No more ‘climate change’ Popes
By Silvio Canto, Jr.

As a lifelong Catholic, I am sorry to hear of the Pope's health. I love my Catholic faith and no one does Easter (or Holy Week) like we do.

Who is going to be the next Pope? There are some strong candidates such as Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, 65, from The Democratic Republic of the Congo:

President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar, Fridolin Ambongo Besungu made headlines when he rejected a controversial declaration of Pope Francis -- with the papal blessing, no less.

The conservative Capuchin declared the doctrine of Fiducia supplicans -- which allowed priests to bless unmarried and same-sex couples -- null and void on the African continent. Besungu was able to achieve explicit blessing from Pope Francis in an emergency meeting in 2023 shortly after the release of that teaching, the Catholic Herald reported.

A Besungu papacy would be seen as a sharp rebuke of the left-leaning principles of Pope Francis. The current pontiff made Besungu a cardinal in 2019.

Rebuke of Pope Francis? I like that with all due respect to the ailing Pope.

Another good choice would be Cardinal Wim Eijk, 71, from the Netherlands. He is regarded as one of the most conservative of the front-runners.

There is also an American on the list: Cardinal Raymond Burke, 76. He is a proponent of the Latin Mass and a public critic of Pope Francis’ liberal tendencies.

I love the Latin Mass. My father was an altar boy in Cuba and learned all those Latin lines that we don’t hear anymore.

No one knows who it will be because it all happens in secret and we just get to wait. No polls here.

The Catholic Church has two serious problems, from losing members to a current Pope who keeps making the leftist case for illegal immigration and climate change.

So stay tuned. The smoke will eventually go up and a new Pope will reveal himself in the balcony. I’d love to see one of these three men on the balcony.

https://www.americanthinker.co...te_change_popes.html

Frank is going to pull a Jimmy Carter and live to 100.

Saw there had been a bit of crisis with his health a few minutes ago on a banner and went to Life Site News. Some articles had maintained some optimism, but that may be coming to a close.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/n...tm_campaign=catholic

Not dead yet...
But I love Vance

Vance Responds To Pope's Criticism Of Trump Administration

Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times,

Vice President JD Vance said he was surprised to hear of Pope Francis’s criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration policy while speaking at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Feb. 28.

Despite that disagreement, Vance prayed for Pope Francis at the event, as the pope remained in critical condition on Feb. 28 after suffering a bronchospasm that caused vomiting and the need for non-invasive mechanical ventilation, the Holy See announced.

Vance also said he believes that the pontiff is a man who deeply cares about the spiritual direction of the faith and the world’s Christians.

“I will always remember the Holy Father as a great pastor, as a man who can speak the truth, the faith, in a very profound way at a moment of great crisis,” Vance said.

He recalled a sermon of hope that the pope delivered in March 2020 at the height of the pandemic in an empty St. Peter’s Square, likening it to the gospel in which Jesus calmed the sea after his terrified disciples awakened him during a storm.

Vance, the first Catholic convert to serve as vice president, asked fellow Catholics to say a prayer that he and his family had been praying daily for the pope ever since he was admitted to the hospital.

Pope Francis has criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and condemned mass deportations.

“The act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness,” he said in a Feb. 10 letter.

Vance had argued that his administration’s immigration policy was aligned with his Catholic faith, citing “Ordo Amoris,” a centuries-old teaching that suggests a hierarchy of how one is supposed to love, justifying the needs and concerns of the immediate family before those of strangers.

Pope Francis appeared to correct Vance’s understanding of the concept in his letter.

“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” he wrote.

“The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”

Vance’s address also came as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken the Trump administration to court over the cut-off of millions of dollars in funding for refugee programs in the United States.

The vice president also discussed using social media to respond to messages and criticism from the pope, bishops, and other religious leaders.

“Sometimes the bishops don’t like what I say,” Vance said.

“I’m sure, by the way, sometimes they’re right, and sometimes they’re wrong. My goal is not to litigate when I’m right and when they’re wrong or vice versa. My goal is to maybe articulate the way that I think about being a Christian in public life.”

Vance said that he believes Christians are not called to obsess over social media controversies involving the Catholic Church, clergy, “or the Holy Father himself,” he said.

“I think that we should frankly take a page out of the books of our grandparents who respected our clergy, who looked to them for guidance, but didn’t obsess and fight over every single word that came out of their mouth.”

Vance said that the clergy are important spiritual leaders with a 2,000-year-old duty to speak on the issues of the day, but that they are now faced with the challenges of social media, and it is just as important for the Church’s clergy to recognize that as it is for lay people.

“I think it’s incumbent upon our religious leaders to recognize that in the era of social media, people will hang on every single word that they utter, even if that wasn’t their intention, and even if a given declaration wasn’t meant for consumption in the social media age,” he said.

The vice president’s speech touched upon his conversion to the faith and the emotional declaration that his 7-year-old son’s baptism was far more significant than winning the election in November 2024.

He stated that the administration’s door was open to feedback from the nation’s faithful.

“I'll make this commitment to you in front of God, and in front of all those television cameras back there, that we will always listen to people of faith and people of conscience in the United States of America,” Vance said. “You have an open door to the Trump administration, even and especially, maybe, when you disagree with us.

“So, please use that opportunity to communicate with us when we get things right, but also when we get things wrong.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...trump-administration

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...as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken the Trump administration to court over the cut-off of millions of dollars in funding for refugee programs in the United States.

What right do these people have to tell the US government how to spend the taxpayer's money? Maybe we should shove that "separation of church and state" BS in their faces. The church has money - use it!

Why has the church let these illegals home country get so bad they want to flee? All of this help could have been put toward making good Catholics and safe streets rather than filling the pockets of those trafficking people.

At the level those guys are operating at many are as conniving and corrupt as any government of any country. A little disappointing considering the nature of their organization, though I'm not saying it could be otherwise. The human condition seems pretty consistent.

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The human condition seems pretty consistent.

Yep.

The institution, as it was created, remains solid...until the end of time. The humans charged with running it? Not so much.