1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,600 Speaker 1: Let's get to Rome and see what the Vatican had 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: to say the last half hour. Joe's weather this morning, Joe, 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: good morning. Make this doesn't sound good. Some blood tests 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: initial mild kidney failure. So he's still on the high 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: flow oxygen. He's still complex. What I mean, are we 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: feeling hopeful at all or not? 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 2: It doesn't sound very good, does it. He remained in 8 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:26,319 Speaker 2: a what they call a critical condition on Sunday. A 9 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 2: great deal of alarm on Saturday when the Vaticans said 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,480 Speaker 2: that the Pope had suffered a prolonged respiratory crisis, which 11 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: sounds like he couldn't breathe at all. He has been 12 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 2: receiving supplemental oxygen through a tube in the last forty 13 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 2: eight hours. And now they're talking about blood tests showing, 14 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 2: as you said, initial mild kidney malfunction or failure. 15 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: Do they have a prognosis? Do they then go but 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: or they just leave it at that. 17 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: Well, they say the clinical picture is complex and we 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: need some drug therapies to provide more feedback. And then 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 2: they say our prognosis remains reserved. So they're not saying 20 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 2: too much, but clearly a lot of different things are 21 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 2: going off at once at the same time. 22 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: How many people are speaking on his behalf. You're getting 23 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: something from the Vatican and something from the doctors, are 24 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: all going through the Vatican or all the doctors all one. 25 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 2: Well, the doctors brief the Vatican public relations offers and 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: they issue the statement once the doctors have given them 27 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 2: the words, which are highly technical usually and that can 28 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 2: create a lot of confusion among the journalists. But it 29 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 2: sounds like he's stable, although critical. I think that's the 30 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 2: way we look at it now. He also celebrated mass 31 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 2: inside his apartment today inside the Jameli Hospital in Rome. 32 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: Okay, how much concern in Italy in general? 33 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: A great deal of concern. I think a great deal 34 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 2: of concern. People think he's not going to come out 35 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 2: of there, and I think that's certainly not looking very 36 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 2: good because it's been in there for ten days and 37 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: all these different parts of his body seem to be reacting. Now. 38 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 2: If he gets sepsis a kind of a blood infection, 39 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 2: that could cause some sort of shutdown in these organs, 40 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 2: and that could just take him out. 41 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: All right, No, we'll stay in touch. Joe appreciate it 42 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: very much. Joe McKenna who's in Rome. Listened to the 43 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: Vatican the last couple of moments. It seems ironic that 44 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: conclave has just come out, doesn't it. I'm still watching 45 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 1: Stanley Tucci on with his Italian cooking show and is 46 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: thinking about conclave. And I'm thinking of the car because 47 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: we'll go through that whole every time, you know, you 48 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: go through and wait for the smoke. They re explain 49 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 1: what's been going on in the Catholic Church for one hundreds, 50 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: if not thousands of years and con what's a conclave? 51 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: And then we'll go them just smoke whitch, yeah exactly. 52 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: So anyway, we'll see what happens in the next couple 53 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: of days. For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen 54 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: live to news talks. 55 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 2: It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast 56 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 2: on iHeartRadio.