Convalescing Pope Francis aims to give Easter blessing: Vatican

Pope’s willingness to show his frailty provides an example to young and old alike

ROME — frailty was on full view as he hospital last Sunday after five weeks battling pneumonia that nearly killed him. He could barely lift his arms to bless the crowd. His eyes were sunken, face bloated. And he visibly gasped for breath as he was wheeled back inside from the balcony. Throughout history, the powerful have concealed their weaknesses. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, the most photographed figure of his era, took pains to hide his lam…

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

ROME (AP) — 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.

Bergoglio already receives issues that require his signature and his collaborators use barbejos to prevent any type of contagion. How his recovery progresses, what therapies he does and when he will be shown again in public.

Pope’s health improves, Vatican secretary of state meets with Polish president

Pope Francis continues to show gradual improvement as he recovers from bilateral pneumonia at his residence in Casa Santa Marta.

Pope tells priests hearing confessions is a ‘privilege’

VATICAN (CNS) — Priests must recognize that it is a privilege to administer the sacrament of reconciliation and grant absolution, Pope Francis wrote. “Celebrating mercy, especially with Jubilee pilgrims, is a privilege: God has made us ministers of mercy by his grace, a gift we welcome because we were, and are, the first objects of his forgiveness,” the pope wrote in the message dated and released March 27. Pope Francis, who is convalescing afte…

Continue both respiratory and motor therapy and physiotherapy. Celebrate daily Mass at Santa Marta, the Vatican press office says (ANSA)