Pope Francis has this morning appeared on his hospital balcony before being discharged following an extraordinary five-week long battle with double pneumonia. The Pontiff was admitted to Rome's ...

Pope Francis thumbs up as appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14 ...

ROME — Pope Francis waved, gave a thumbs-up and made a gesture of blessing from his hospital balcony to a throng of well-wishers before his discharge and return to the Vatican on Sunday ...

Rome, Italy, Jul 11, 2021 / 05:45 am. In his first public appearance since having an intestinal surgery, Pope Francis prayed the Angelus from the balcony of his hospital on Sunday and delivered a ...

Pope Francis returned to the public eye Sunday, a week after he underwent intestinal surgery. The pope stood on a balcony at Rome’s Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic hospital and address… ...

VATICAN CITY — Just a day earlier, Pope Francis had thrilled the faithful by showing up on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica after two brushes with death and blessing the crowd of ...

Pope Francis greets the crowd as he leads the Angelus from a balcony of Gemelli Hospital in Rome on July 11, 2021, as he recovers from intestinal surgery. (CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters) ...

Pope Francis gestures as he appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14.