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Pope Francis welcomes Gemelli medical teams to the Vatican, thanks them

The 88-year-old Holy Father greeted approximately 70 men and women representing leadership and staff from the hospital.

ROMA.- In another sign that he is better and in the process of recovery, Pope Francis received in audience this Wednesday the staff and managers of Gemelli Hospital, where he was hospitalized between February 14 and March 23 for pneumonia, as well as members of the Vatican Health and Hygiene Directorate, with the aim of thanking them for their “good service”. During the hospitalization, the fourth and most serious of his pontificate, the Pontiff…

Pope Francis received on Wednesday the staff of the hospital in Rome where he was treated for 38 days for a double pneumonia that caused him to near death, announced the Vatican. ...

KATHRYN LOPEZ: The hope for the pope

Pope Francis making snow angels. That image adorned the cover of an issue of The New Yorker in December 2013. I have a coffee mug I picked up in Rome early on in his pontificate depicting him as a superhero,…

Pope thanks medical team that cared for him during hospitalization - Catholic Review

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis personally thanked the health care workers and medical staff who cared for him in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for 38 days while he recovered from respiratory infections. Pope Francis poses for a photo with the heath care workers and medical staff who cared for him during his hospitalization during a meeting at the Vatican April 16, 2025. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan) “Thank you, thank you above all for what you did,”…

The Vatican reported that the Pontiff's health continues to improve, and that he is able to go longer periods without oxygen assistance. Pope Francis, 88, reunited with the medical team at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, Italy, where he was hospitalized for 38 days as a result of bilateral pneumonia that threatened his life on two occasions. The meeting, according to the Vatican, took place in an annex of the Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, where ge…