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On 9 January, the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano announced that Pope Francis' personal doctor, Fabrizio Soccorsi, died of pneumonia and because of COVID-19. [ 43 ] On 14 January, it was confirmed that both Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis had received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine , with their followup doses ...
On January 10, 2022, Pope Francis issued a statement on COVID-19 vaccines. He stated that COVID-19 vaccination was a "moral obligation" and denounced "how people had been swayed by 'baseless information' to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives". [20] [21] [22]
This is a list of notable people reported as having died either from coronavirus disease 2019 or post COVID-19 , as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID-19 pandemic.
A collection of popes have had violent deaths through the centuries. The circumstances have ranged from martyrdom (Pope Stephen I) to war (Lucius II), to an alleged beating by a jealous husband (Pope John XII). A number of other popes have died under circumstances that some believe to be murder, but for which definitive evidence has not been found. Martyr popes This list is incomplete ; you ...
On January 10, 2022, Pope Francis issued a statement on COVID-19 vaccines, Pope Francis stated that COVID-19 vaccines was a "moral obligation" and denounced "how people had been swayed by "baseless information" to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives".
[9] [10] Francis's trip to Assisi was his first outside Rome since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, [11] [12] and his fourth visit to the city as pope. [2] [12] The conservative Spanish Catholic website InfoVaticana had leaked the original Spanish version of the encyclical on the same day despite the news embargo. [13]
He stepped down as pope at 20:00 on 28 February 2013, in the first papal renunciation in almost 600 years since Pope Gregory XII in 1415, [1] and the first to voluntarily step down since Pope Celestine V in 1294. [2] [3] He cited his declining health as the reason for his resignation. [4]
The COVID-19 vaccines are widely credited for their role in reducing the severity and death caused by COVID-19. [128] [129] As of March 2023, more than 5.5 billion people had received one or more doses [130] (11.8 billion in total) in over 197 countries. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was the most widely used. [131]