@John Fritz Logan and
@Clement Jaeho Chung -I'm sure you both know, that the Vatican is expert at hiding papal illnesses. There are only 2 POpes who insisted that the Vatican be honest about their infirmities/illnesses. One was the great Pope Pius XII, who ordered his doctors (and at that time, his physicians were not very good at all), to be honest about his condition, which was a gastro-intestinal and esophageal.problem that is common in very nervous/hyper people who are very intense workaholics. Pius was a "take charge of everything, worry about everything" person, and when he got elderly, it affected his digestiive system. The Vaticn did not cover it up, even when he finally had two strokes in 1958, 1 mild one, and a day later, a massive one. Had he not had the second stroke, he might have indeed lived another 5-6 years. How much better the Church would have been had he indeed lived in relatively good health till 1965!
The other Pope who ordered that the Vatican not cover up/lie about his illnesses was of course, JPII.
The Vatican lied about John XXIII and his stomach cancer for the entire 9 months he was sick. Unfortunatly that illness ran in his family, 2 sisters also died of the same thing. But the Vatican kept saying that he was "mildly indisposed", for months, until the very end when the stomach tumor ruptured and the poor man suffered for nearly 3 weeks before dying in June, 1963. He was not a good Pope, but I would not wish that on anyone. He was making speeches and appearances all the way up until the end of May, 1963 and he died about 2 weeks later. But they lied about everything with him. John XXIII reportedly even as he was dying, ordered the Cardinals to close down/cancel the rest of Vatican II, but of course that was disregarded/ignored.
But the Vatican is 100% lying about Francis. I think we will find that out over the next few months, and at the very end.
