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LAST UPDATE | 23 Mar
POPE FRANCIS MADE a brief appearance today after he was released from hospital, where he spent five weeks.
The 88-year-old pontiff was treated for pneumonia and a respiratory infection.
The Pope’s doctor, Luigi Carbone, said the Pope is improving and hopes he can resume activities soon.
The Vatican said it will take time for his voice to return to normal, and he will need at least two months to recover.
However, today Francis addressed crowds outside the Gemelli hospital.
Sitting in a wheelchair, a staff member held a microphone for him. He told the public in Italian: “Thank you, everyone.”
He also remarked on a woman below who had brought him flowers.
Francis will now return to the Santa Marta.
At a press conference last night, spokespersons for Francis said that he had not had Covid, and wanted to return home several days ago. However, his doctors decided that he should be discharged on Sunday.
The serious infections suffered by the Pope have been overcome, the Vatican representatives told journalists, but the overall infection is not completely healed, hence the need for convalescence.
Separately, Francis today called for an “immediate” end to Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, and for the resumption of dialogue for the release of hostages and a “definitive ceasefire”.
The health ministry in Gaza said today that at least 50,021 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since war with Israel began in October 2023.
“I am saddened by the resumption of heavy Israeli bombing on the Gaza Strip, causing many deaths and injuries.
“In the Strip, the humanitarian situation is again very serious and requires urgent commitment from the conflicting parties and the international community,” Francis wrote in an Angelus prayer.
“I ask that the weapons be silenced immediately and that the courage be found to resume dialogue so that all the hostages can be freed and a definitive ceasefire reached.”
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Serious courage on display
@Argus Romsworth: World class private healthcare only the elites can afford, some courage, lol!
@Jacintha Dumbrell: weird how he don’t rely on prayers to heal him
@Housing Hunger Games: No trip to Lourdes for Frankie?! Hmm!
@Jacintha Dumbrell: you’re like the far right conspiracy l-uners. Awful dose
@Jacintha Dumbrell: nasty bit of goods today. Do you wake up with a chip on your shoulder every day? It must weigh you down a lot
@Housing Hunger Games: weird how you’re commenting when you clearly have no understanding of religious beliefs
@JohnDoe:
The angry little atheists can’t help themselves. Imagine waking up on a lovely weekend morning so full of hate and anger.
@Jacintha Dumbrell: give it a break. Anyone who has health insurance gets same treatment.
@Regular John: I agree wholeheartedly, and I’m atheist.
@Housing Hunger Games: @Housing Hunger Games: you really are a hate filled human being, the irony is that you classify yourself as left wing and a champion of human rights and equality but most of the time you spout hate filled vitriol. I can see from your comments yesterday that you are pro islamic, the irony, I think maybe you should convert and sinus a favour, people like you could do with a Niqab, might shut your hate filled gob for a while , a good Muslim husband to keep you in check lol. Silly person
@Electro Box: Ignore him he is a incel troll
@Jacintha Dumbrell: Italy is ranked second in the world for healthcare by the WHO so no, it’s not just elites who receive this level of care.
@Regular John: or waking up knowing that your indoctrinated into a group who believe medieval fairytales and are dressed in costume
@Jacintha Dumbrell: jesus saved him come on
@Regular John:
I can’t.
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer:
Thanks for proving my point. LOL…
@Housing Hunger Games: the hospital where he was treated is the largest hospital in Rome and is part of the largest Catholic university in Europe so they obviously rely on science not prayer. You seem to be confusing the Catholic faith with right wing cults, who are so brainwashed that they’d allow their children to die of a preventable illness and explain it away as ‘God’s will’ rather than vaccinating them.
He is not a quitter. God is God.
@thomas molloy: God doesn’t exist.
@Fergus O’Donnell: The concocted god of the human religions does not exist and it has even become that regions are the enemies of God. At least atheists don’t demean God by falsely representing God.
@Fergus O’Donnell: How do you know? And why do you feel the need to say that?
Many people around the world have faith and a belief in a spiritual entity that helps
them in their everyday life.
You, my friend, I think have nothing, not even respect for others.
@Fergus O’Donnell: in your mind
@Fergus O’Donnell: can’t wait to hear your concrete evidence
@Fergus O’Donnell:
How do you know this ?
@John Mulligan: The decadence promoting people in MSM have conflated Religion with God to undermine belief in God. Bad actors in religious construct organisations are not God and are actually enemies of God along with the other God haters.
@Fergus O’Donnell:
Does Lucifer exist, with so much evil and so many wars going on.
@Fergus O’Donnell: Yes I do!!!
Why.do a number of people feel it is ok to mock the Catholic Church or all things Catholic. Probably becsuse of fear
@Breda Appleby: Probably because they deserve it. And more.
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: have you not got any children to try and indoctrinate ? The neck of your ilk talking about ethics and morals.
@Breda Appleby: because they’re a gang of idiots that seem to prefer Islam , a religious belief that would literally have them flying off the top of buildings, as for the creature commenting in this thread , when have you seen Drag Queens in Islamic countries, doesn’t happen. They’re mentally ill. They hate traditional family values and want to force their narrative down everyone’s throats , as for the character in drag , he’s probably having something forced down his throat as we speak lol
@Breda Appleby: it’s lost its political power , with the rise of non – believe and related secularism . It’s a cost free revenge for sins of the past . PC doctrine states if it’s non – native you have to tippy- toe around it . Even if it’s a religion or culture that is anything but pc . Not a believer in God myself . Faith is not a source of truth . A Hindi , Muslim , Christian and others all have faith in their believes . They can’t all be right so therefore faith alone is not a source of truth . That leaves evidence – which is lacking . If there is a creative force behind existence , I doubt it’s comprehensible . Maybe in the future it will be .
@Breda Appleby: Catholic Church is a non entity.
@Breda Appleby: Well they imprisoned our women, and raped or murdered our kids, so yeah, seems fair to me.
@Breda Appleby: people who believe in god are afraid of death
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer:
Death will come to us all eventually.
I don’t fear death or those who may wish to harm me.
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: not true at all…the opposite in fact..
@Electro Box:
Well said, how old was all’ahs wife??
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer:
No atheists in foxholes pal !
@Electro Box: a bit rich considering the latest p#edo caught fiddling with a child at “Christian” school.. yet again!!
Why.do a number of people feel it is ok to mock the Catholic Church or all things Catholic. Probably becsuse of fear
@Breda Appleby: We heard you the first time. Because.they.deserve.it.
@Breda Appleby: Catholicism didn’t disappear when the new churches were set up and this disappeared them, also the simplicity of Catholic faith confounds those intellectual/political organisations. Catholicism still teaches the basics truths about marriage and morality and this upsets cultures allowing promiscuity. They are afraid of Muslims.
@thomas molloy: ….. this disappointed…..
Everyone should go to Mass today
@Mr. Biggins: everyone should mute you today….. like I’m doing in 3, 2,….
(9 of your accounts muted & counting, diminishing life to live)
@Mr. Biggins: why?
@j m m: he’s a pox.
@Fergus O’Donnell: yes, yes he is. Maybe he’s praying for the special needs children he belittled & berated on here a few weeks ago. (Trying to pass himself off here as a conscientious christian… now that’s funny.) Johnny 40 accounts. How and why journal don’t cancel him is just beyond me. His comments are stick-out obvious like a ba boons bum, so it can’t be difficult.
@Dermot Blaine: it’s good for the soul, my little multi-account bigot
@Mr. Biggins: jim, I’m pretty certain, slating special needs children is NOT good for the soul.
Forgot to mute ya, …. and… done!
@j m m: will you be putting on a nice little summer frock for Mother’s Day?
@j m m: Don’t be such a hate fuelled incel.
@Mr. Biggins: I am sure his boyfriend looks forward to that every year.
@j m m:
Telling everyone to mute him like you are doing and yet you are still replying to him… I’d rather mute you to be honest.
@Mr. Biggins: and get told to stand up sit down repeat nonsense ideas
Prayers work. He was at deaths door and prayers outside the hospital helped him to pull through.
@Breda Appleby: till next week. He looks like he is ready to fall apart.
@James King: yes I agree.he doesnt look too good at all. Just barely able to speak.
@Breda Appleby:
And medical science…
@James King: it’s like the time the two lads brought the dead man down to the post office in Laois to collect his pension
@Breda Appleby: prayers didn’t work for my 5 year old nephew who died of cancer.
Bless him. Not reported here, but his first words on arrival back in the Vatican were “Has that c unt McGregor been jailed yet?”
I hope they find that poor man in Kerry today.
I believe in god, mankind are the perpetrators of the word written, many will be saved and many will perish, simples.
Five weeks off sick. Has he got a GP letter and claimed off the Welfare ? That’s what the rest of us have to do.
@Mike Dowling: No need for a Cert.His Boss is sound and kept him on full-pay.
@Sean Buckley: His boss must be a legend !
@Mike Dowling: Had a letter from St Paul to the Corinthians and claimed benedictfits from the social. Sorted. Panic over. Good man Fran. Welcome back.
@Mike Dowling: that he is . Just keep your hands off his apple at lunchtime .
@Mike Dowling: Every immature comment, I think
We love Papa Francesco…..
Great to see that he was dis-charged, very important to have clean bill, no issues on the Register , One is always glad to see that! Time will tell if that will happen. Evidence is very important
We need more coverage on the Web Plummit techbro handbags. Trinity Tw ats. “Oi have kompromat, roysh”. For once I prayed the Israelis would obliterate their whole digital presence. Or send them a few new phones.
Looks like the scene from the pianist where they chuck the aul fella of the balcony.
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