Doctor cites the pope's 'surprising improvement' after surviving life-threatening crises

The fragility of Pope Francis was seen by everyone when he left Gemelli Hospital in Rome last Sunday, after five weeks of fighting pneumonia that almost killed him.

Doctor notes Pope Francis’ ‘surprising improvement’

ROME — Pope Francis has shown “a truly surprising improvement” since returning to the Vatican to convalesce after surviving a life-threatening bout with double pneumonia, the doctor who coordinated the pontiff’s five-week hospitalization said Saturday. Read more...

Against all odds, Pope Francis returned to his home in Santa Marta and recovers slowly from pneumonia that had him almost 40 days in the hospital and, as could be known, twice on the verge of death. It could be said that he technically agonized, but managed to reverse that serious picture by medical mastery and because God wanted it. And, although helped by an oxygen cannula, he looks with hope at the arrival of Holy Week, the most important cel…

The arrival of Francis to the Vatican was one of the most unexpected. Argentine and contrary to the pharaonic vestiges of the office, convinced that the message of the Church was...

Pope Francis has shown "truly surprising improvement" since returning to the Vatican to recover after surviving a life-threatening bout of double pneumonia, the doctor who coordinated the pontiff's five-week hospitalization said Saturday, according to the AP, taken over by News.ro.

Pope's doctor visits him at Vatican and says his condition has dramatically improved

Dr. Sergio Alfieri tells The Associated Press that the Pope was 'very lively,' after visiting him Wednesday, three days after his release from Rome’s Gemelli hospital.