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Pope Francis He publicly recognized that this Lent season is a moment of healing for his soul and body.
On Sunday, the Vatican launched the text of the Swimay Angelus prayer prepared by Francis. It is the seventh consecutive Sunday that his illness has prevented him from delivering the blessing from a window on the Plaza de San Pedro as usual.
“Dear friends, leave us Live this Lent As a moment of healing, even more like jubilee, “said Francis.” I am also experiencing it in this way, in my soul and in my body. “
“That is why I sincerely thank all those who, in the image of the Savior, are instruments of healing for their neighbor with his word and his knowledge, with kindness and prayer,” he continued. “Fragility and disease are experiences that we all have in common; however, we are brothers in the salvation that Christ has given us.”
Pope Francis goes in a car after appearing in a window of the Agostino Gemelli polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he was being treated. (AP/Stefano Costantino)
His comments then turned to world conflicts, With an approach in South Sudan, where he said “war continues to claim innocent victims.”
“I urge parties interested in the conflict to first put the safeguarding of the life of their civil brothers and sisters; and I hope that the new negotiations begin as soon as possible, capable of ensuring a lasting solution to the crisis,” he said. “That the international community increases its efforts to address the terrible humanitarian catastrophe.”
Pope Francis makes the first public appearance in five weeks
The faithful and the pilgrims gather in the Plaza de San Pedro in the Vatican to continue on the giant screens a live broadcast of the Agostino Gemelli Police of Rome, on Sunday, March 23, 2025, where Pope Francis made his first public appearance since he was hospitalized on February 14 with bilateral pneumonia. (Photo AP/Gregorio Borgia)
The 88 -year -old pontiff is still recovering from a respiratory infection, according to the Holy Headquarters press office. It is still weaned from oxygen support during the day and night, and its blood levels are normal. However, his medical team ordered a strict period of convalescence of at least two months after his hospital release last week.
Francis has demonstrated “a truly surprising improvement,” Dr. Who coordinated the five -week hospitalization of the Pontiff on Saturday.
The surgeon Sergio Alfieri speaks with journalists on Saturday, March 22, 2025, in the entrance hall of the Agostino Gemelli Police of Rome, where Pope Francis has been treated by bilateral pneumonia since February 14, 2025. (Photo AP/Gregorio Borgia)
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“I find it very lively,” said Dr. Sergio Alfieri, after visiting the Pope in his department at Santa Marta Domus on Wednesday, three days after his release from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. “I think he will return if not 100%, 90% where he was before.”
Associated Press contributed to this report.
