'Still alive,' Pope Francis jokes as he leaves a Rome hospital 9 days after surgery "The pope is well. He's better than before,'' said Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the surgeon who performed the 86-year-old pontiff's operation on June 7.
In a historic shift, Pope Francis allows women to vote at bishops' meetings Catholic women's groups that have long criticized the Vatican for treating women as second-class citizens immediately praised the move as historic in the 2,000-year life of the church.
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Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Saturday The pope will leave the hospital on Saturday, three days after he was hospitalized for respiratory problems. He was diagnosed with bronchitis. Francis will be present for Palm Sunday ceremonies.
Pope Francis has been hospitalized after having breathing trouble, the Vatican says Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni's second statement said that hospital tests showed Francis is suffering from a respiratory infection, but they ruled out COVID.
After 10 years as pope, Francis continues to reshape the Catholic Church The leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics has steered his church leftward after more than two decades of conservative leadership. Opposition within the Vatican is fierce.
Pope Francis says homosexuality is not a crime in a new interview He stressed that lack of charity with one another is also a sin and added that the Catholic Church should work to put an end to laws in some countries that criminalize homosexuality.
Pope Francis laments the 'icy winds of war' buffeting humanity at Christmas Pope Francis used his Christmas message to make a plea for an immediate end to the fighting in Ukraine, which he decried as "senseless." He also addressed long-running conflicts in the Middle East.
Pope is set to make historic apology to Indigenous peoples for school abuses in Canada Pope Francis is expected to apologize for generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada. Thousands of children died from disease, fire and other causes.
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