The personal doctor of Pope Francis has died from COVID-19 complications.
According to the Catholic News Agency, Fabrizio Soccorsi, 78, died at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital after he was admitted in late December. While he also was dealing with an “oncological pathology,” COVID was the cause of death, the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reported.
Soccorsi was named Francis’ personal physician in August 2015.
It is not known when the two men last had direct contact. As someone with a number of underlying medical issues, including only one lung, the pontifex is especially vulnerable to COVID infection.
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Francis recently declared it was within Catholic doctrine, and actually an ethical obligation, to receive vaccination against COVID and said he would be receiving his first dose shortly.
“It is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process,” the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said in a statement approved by Francis in December.
