A week after undergoing surgery, Pope Francis' recovery is going well enough that his doctors are making plans to discharge him from Rome's Gemelli hospital.
ROME (CNS) A week after undergoing abdominal surgery, Pope Francis recovery is going well enough that his doctors are making plans to discharge him from Rome s Gemelli hospital, the Vatican press office said. The medical staff reports that his clinical course is proceeding smoothly, without complications, and is therefore planning to discharge him in the next few days, Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, told reporters June 14.
Bruni s statement came the morning after Il
Pope Francis delivered an address before praying the Regina Caeli on Divine Mercy Sunday April 16, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Apr 18, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).By deciding to leave the hospital as soon as possible last month and immediately showing himself standing and not in a wheelchair, Pope Francis wanted to send out two signals. The first is that, despite the infirmities of his age, he still manages and intends to govern, and therefore one should not even think of a shadow papacy. The second is that no one can decide how the liturgies will be managed.Indeed, during Pope Francis hospitalization, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, had made it known that the cardinals had already defined who would celebrate the Masses of the Easter holidays and that the pope would eventually "attend" these celebrations. Instead, Pope Francis presided over the festivities himself while maintaining the custom of letting another celebrant at the altar perfor