welcome
CBS News

CBS News

Health

Health

Pope Francis suffers 2 episodes of "acute respiratory failure," Vatican says, more than 2 weeks into hospitalization

CBS News
Summary
Nutrition label

74% Informative

Pope Francis had bronchospasm on Friday , the Vatican says.

Doctors carried out two bronchoscopies to relieve his respiratory distress.

The pope has been in hospital for more than two weeks for bronchitis that deteriorated into pneumonia.

This is the pope's fourth hospitalization since he took over leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013 .

VR Score

78

Informative language

80

Neutral language

74

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

62

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

no external sources

Source diversity

no sources

Affiliate links

no affiliate links