In the charity of your prayers please remember His Eminence Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, whose urothelial cancer has returned.
Writing in the Catholic New World, Cardinal George said:
If I may speak personally, this Lent
finds me once again in poor health. My
cancer, which was dormant for well over
a year, is still confined to the area of the
right kidney, but it is beginning to show
signs of new activity. After many tests,
scans, biopsies and other inconveniences,
the settled judgment is that the best
course of action is to enter into a regimen
of chemotherapy, with drugs more aggressive
than those that were used in the
first round of chemo. This treatment will
take place over the next two months,
when my reaction to the chemo will be
evaluated.
I was able to maintain my administrative
schedule well during that first round,
although my public schedule was sometimes
curtailed because of lowered immunity.
As I prepare for this next round
of chemo, I ask for your prayers, which
have always sustained me, and for your
understanding if I cannot always fulfill
the schedule already set for the next several
months. While I am not experiencing
symptoms of cancer at this time, this is a
difficult form of the disease, and it will
most probably eventually be the cause of
my death. Chemo is designed to shrink
the tumor, prevent symptoms and prolong
life.
Conscious that such an announcement will likely fuel questions about his resignation, the 77 year old Cardinal wrote, "The only
certainty is that no one knows when that
will be, except perhaps the Holy Father,
and he hasn’t told me. As required by the
Code of Canon Law, I submitted my resignation
two years ago and was told to
wait until I heard from the pope. The
consultation the pope makes through the
Apostolic Nuncio takes a good number
of months, and it hasn’t formally started
yet."
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