PONTIFF RETURNS TO THE VATICAN
The pope continues his recovery
POPE FRANCIS is recuperating at home in the Vatican City after spending five weeks in hospital battling a severe bout of pneumonia.
Before his discharge the 88-year-old pontiff made a public appearance on a balcony at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital to bless the crowd who had gathered below.
“I see this woman with the yellow flowers. Brava,” he said, giving a thumbs-up and a sign of the cross before returning inside.
Though his pneumonia has been successfully treated the pope will continue to take oral medication for a fungal lung infection and undergo respiratory and physical therapy.
The Argentinian leader of the Catholic church, who suffers from chronic lung disease and had part of a lung removed as a young man,…
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