Is Pope Francis suffering from a brain tumour?

Le pape François atteint d’une tumeur au cerveau ?

par Mathilde Imberty mercredi 21 octobre 2015 10:59, mis à jour le mercredi 21 octobre 2015 à 16h40

Le pape François © LaPresse/MAXPPP

En Italie, le Quotidiano Nazionale annonçait que François souffrirait d’une tumeur au cerveau, soignable. Le Vatican a démenti mercredi matin : le Pape n’a pas consulté de spécialiste dans ce domaine.

The Italian daily Quotidiano Nazionale has revealed that Pope Francis is suffering from a treatable brain tumour. The Vatican refuted on Wednesday morning: The Pope has not consulted a specialist in this domain.

A bientôt 79 ans, la santé du Pape inquiète. Forcément. Mais le porte-parole du Vatican, Federico Lombardi, a été clair : “Je peux confirmer que le pape est en bonne santé”.

Soon to be 79 years old, the Pope’s health is a worry. Strongly. But a Vatican spokesperson, Federico Lombardi, was clear: “I want to confirm that the Pope is in good health”.

Un démenti qui n’étonne pas. A denial is not surprising.

D’après le journal Quotidiano Nazionale, le Pape aurait une tumeur au cerveau. “Tumeur guérissable sans intervention chirurgicale” précise le quotidien. Selon ses informations, largement reprises par les médias italiens, François aurait consulté il y a sept mois un spécialiste japonais en tumeur du cerveau, le Pr Takanori Fukushima, dans une clinique de Pise. Il aurait trouvé une “petite tâche sombre” lors d’un examen médical. Le journal raconte la stupeur de l’équipe médicale quand elle a découvert le nom du patient, Jorge Bergoglio.

As per the newspaper, the Pope would have found a brain tumour. “A curable tumour without surgery” explained the daily. Seven months ago Francis consulted a Japanese specialist Prof. Takanori Fukushima, in a Pisa clinic. He found a “small dark patch” during the medical examination. The Italian journal recorded the amazement of the medical team when they discovered the patient’s name: Jorge Bergoglio.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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