UPDATE: Pope NEAR DEATH (Heart & Kidney Failure)

[Forum Admin]

Apr 1, 12:32 AM (ET)

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul's condition was "very grave" on Friday, the Vatican said in a statement, adding that the Pontiff had suffered shock and cardio-circulatory collapse.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the Pope had been given the Holy Viaticum -- communion reserved for those close to death -- and had decided himself not to go to hospital for treatment.

The statement said the Pope had received cardio-respiratory assistance on Thursday and on Friday morning was still "conscious, lucid and tranquil."
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http://reuters.myway.com/article/200...S-POPE-DC.html

UPDATE:

Apr 1, 5:11 PM (ET)
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II was near death Friday, his breathing shallow and his heart and kidneys failing, the Vatican said. Millions of faithful around the world knelt, crawled on their knees, bowed their heads and lit candles to pray for the 84-year-old pontiff.

"This evening or this night, Christ opens the door to the pope," Angelo Comastri, the pope's vicar general for Vatican City, told a crowd at St. Peter's Square, where up to 70,000 people prayed and stood vigil in the chilly night. Many tearfully gazed at John Paul's third-floor window, wrapping themselves in blankets.

The Vatican said Friday morning that John Paul was in "very grave" condition after suffering blood poisoning from a urinary tract infection the previous night, but that he was "fully conscious and extraordinarily serene" and declined to be hospitalized.

By Friday night, the pope's condition had worsened further, and he was suffering from kidney failure and shortness of breath but had not lost consciousness as of 9:30 p.m., the Vatican said.
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050401/D896SE8G0.html

[Forum Admin]

Drudge Headline:
Pope's condition 'very grave' after heart attack

LEAD: Pope John Paul II suffered septic shock and a heart attack, and his condition is 'very serious', Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said Friday...

[thechrismyster]

1979, i was 7 years old and stood out on the street for 5 hours with my folks to watch Pope John Paul II ride in the streets of Philadelphia in the back of a car. A fellow Pole who my family identified so strongly with.
I'm now 32 and the thought of him actually coming to an end as our Holy Father really makes me sad.
He is really a great man, a living saint.

[Lisa4Catholics]

No!NO!NO!We can not take it right now Tranquil and lucid Is he in the hospital?

[Lisa4Catholics]

Heart attack and sepsis This is horrible!

[Isilzha]

*prayers*

[SusanL]

Our Holy Father's timing is so beautiful. For many, many years the media has been waiting and waiting for this big story on the pope's death. They have kept a "death" watch. Now, with Terri Schiavo's death, our beloved Pontiff is showing the world how it is supposed to be done. With a love and dignity, sanctity of life. Allowing God, the Father, to call him when he is ready, not some judge.

[Lisa4Catholics]

Administrator can I copy and paste your post on Terris forum?Some are staying there and not looking at the new post Prayers need to go up asap.Waiting for a reply

[Forum Admin]

Go right ahead.
Or do you want me to do it?

EDIT: Copied to Terri's forum and made into a sticky

[Lisa4Catholics]

Originally Posted by Administrator

Go right ahead.
Or do you want me to do it?

If you can do it faster go for it I am panicked If you have a master button to cover the active ones if not I will help.You take the odd I will take the even.

[Forum Admin]

done

[UtahMaggie]

God's will be done. That's all I can say.

Maggie

[antiaphrodite]

my eyes are dried up but my body is crying.

[Lisa4Catholics]

Originally Posted by Administrator

done

Thankyou

[SusanL]

May God bless this saintly man. We love you, John Paul II.


Hail Mary, full of Grace...