Doctor treating Pope Francis says team considered ending treatment so he could die

Sergio Alfieri has confessed that when the Pope had been in the medical center for 14 days it was the most critical moment of the whole process since he could not breathe and suffered a strong bronchospasm Read

Ordaining women as deacons? This dossier, like that of preaching during Mass, has been open for more than fifty years, shortly after Vatican Council II. Francis moved a few lines, without yielding to the question of female diaconate.

Pope Francis’ Health Situation Was at One Point So Dire That Doctors Contemplated Stopping the Treatment and ‘Letting Him Die in Peace’

Pope Francis faced a critical health crisis that led doctors to consider halting treatment, raising profound questions about his future and the impact on the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis' doctor says they considered "letting him go" during hospital stay

Pope Francis' doctor said the 88-year-old pontiff came so close to dying during his 5-week hospital stay that at one point, they considered "letting him go." CBS News' Chris Livesay has more.

Pope's Doctors Were Close to Halting Treatment

Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican on Sunday, after being hospitalized for more than a month and suffering four "respiratory crises" as he battled bronchitis, then double pneumonia. Now, doctors at Rome's Gemelli hospital reveal just how close to death the 88-year-old pontiff came, and how they had to...

Pope’s doctor calls recovery ‘miraculous,’ says Francis wanted to keep fighting

ROME – Pope Francis’s primary doctor during his hospitalization has said it was the pope himself who chose to keep trying different therapies when his life was most at risk, and has attributed the pontiff’s “miraculous” recovery, in part, to prayer. Speaking to Italian journalist Fiorenza Sarzanini with Italy’s newspaper of record, Corriere della Sera, Doctor Sergio Alfieri said the night of Feb. 28 was “the worst” night of the pope’s recent ord…