Pope Francis at his general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 17, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Jun 9, 2023 / 05:18 am (CNA).Pope Francis is "steadily improving" two days after he underwent abdominal surgery to correct an incisional hernia, a Vatican spokesman said Friday.According to Matteo Bruni, the pope rested during the night and on the morning of June 9 was able to eat breakfast and move from his hospital bed to an armchair."The medical team reports that the clinical picture is steadily improving and the post-operative progress is normal," he said in a brief statement released shortly before 1:00 p.m. Rome time.He added that Pope Francis was able to read the newspaper and do some work.Francis underwent a three-hour surgery for an incisional hernia on June 7. A team of surgeons removed scar tissue and operated on a hernia in the pope s abdominal wall at the site of a previous surgical incision.Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the pope s main surgeon, said at
Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the lead surgeon for Pope Francis' abdominal surgery, speaks at a press conference at Gemelli Hospital on June 7, 2023. / Andreas Thonhauser/EWTNRome Newsroom, Jun 7, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).Pope Francis is awake after reacting well to both surgery and general anesthetic, an Italian surgeon said Wednesday afternoon.Pope Francis "is well, awake, alert, and already made his first joke 10 minutes ago," Dr. Sergio Alfieri said June 7 during a brief press conference at Rome s Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Francis is recovering following abdominal surgery.Alfieri, director of the hospital s abdominal surgery department, is the same surgeon who removed part of Pope Francis colon during an operation to treat diverticulitis in July 2021.The surgeon told journalists that from a medical point of view, there would be nothing preventing the pope from continuing with his planned travels to Portugal and Mongolia in August after his recovery.The conditions treated by t
The one-year-old "What Is A Woman?" documentary by The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh has amassed more than 177 million views in less than a week on Twitter. / Credit: Matt Walsh/YouTubeWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 7, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).The one-year-old "What Is a Woman?" documentary has amassed more than 177 million views in less than a week on Twitter. Despite pushback from transgender activists, the documentary has had enormous success since the film was offered on Twitter at the beginning of June. CNA took a look at what the film is about and why it s amassed so many views recently. What is the film about?The documentary, which stars popular culture and political commentator Matt Walsh and is distributed by The Daily Wire, tackles questions related to the transgender movement, specifically delving into the question posed in the title, "What is a woman?"Walsh interviews a variety of people, including politicians, doctors, a professor, and a ther
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Null / Shutterstock.Denver, Colo., Jun 8, 2023 / 08:50 am (CNA).Congress must act to help prevent the exposure of children to online pornography and to combat online exploitation and abuse of children and other vulnerable people, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said Wednesday."Online child exploitation threatens the safety and well-being of our young people and destroys families and communities," four leading bishops of the USCCB said in a June 7 letter to members of Congress. "The ability of a child to grow into adulthood in peace and security is both a human right and a demand of the common good: The dignity of the human person requires protections for our young people so that they may flourish as they mature."Signers of the letter were Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. of Kansas City-St. Joseph, who chairs the USCCB s Committee on Protection of Children and Young People; Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia, who chairs