“We have 82 volunteers and we are open all week long,” said Cardinal Krajewski, the pope’s charity point man, adding that each doctor has one or two on-calls in the clinic, and that the Lenten initiative was an extra activity for them.
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Pope Francis returns to the Vatican to continue his recovery
Pope Francis is back home in the Vatican after spending 38 days in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where was treated for double pneumonia and survived two crises where his life was in danger.
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Pope Francis will return home to the Vatican tomorrow
Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday, but he must continue the therapies and observe “a period of rest and convalescence for at least two months,” his doctors said.
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Pope Francis will greet and bless supporters from his hospital window tomorrow
Supporters will see Pope Francis for the first time since Feb. 14 as he intends to appear at the window of his suite at Gemelli Hospital.
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Cardinal Fernandez talks Pope Francis’ emotional state and what to expect in this ‘new phase’ of his papacy
“I can say that it has certainly been a very hard time for him, this month, for him who loves to give himself entirely, to be there in the hospital bed without being able to help others,” Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández said.
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Could Pope Francis and King Charles’s meeting actually happen in just a few weeks?
On “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen talks with Gerry about King Charles’ planned visit to the Vatican in April and Pope Francis’ next stage of the global synodal process.
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Doctors: Pope Francis no longer needs mechanical ventilation, lung infection is ‘under control’
Pope Francis is now on his 35th day in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, in stable condition and slowly but surely recovering from pneumonia in both lungs.
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Doctors give upbeat report on Pope Francis
Today, March 19, was a positive day for Pope Francis according to the latest medical report from his doctors in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, which the Vatican released at 7 p.m. this evening.
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From his hospital bed, Pope Francis calls for peace amid European rearmament
“Human fragility has the power to make us more lucid about what endures and what passes, what brings life and what kills,” Pope Francis wrote in a letter to the editor in chief of Corriere della Sera.
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Breaking: Pope Francis will receive King Charles III and Queen Camilla in audience in the Vatican on April 8
The visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom to the Vatican next month will include an audience with Pope Francis, suggesting the pope’s health is improving.