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Pope Francis gives a thumbsup gesture from his window at Gemelli Hospital in Rome during his first public appearance in weeks on Sunday, March 23, 2025. / Credit: Screenshot/Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 23, 2025 / 06:22 am (CNA).Pope Francis was admitted to Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis. Follow here for the latest news on his health and hospitalization:
Pope Francis waves from a balcony at Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Sunday, March 23, 2025, following weeks of hospitalization for bilateral pneumonia. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNACNA Newsroom, Mar 23, 2025 / 07:04 am (CNA).Shortly before returning to his home in the Vatican on Sunday, Pope Francis made a brief appearance from a fifth-floor balcony of the Gemelli Clinic in Rome to a crowd of faithful gathered outside the hospital.The moment marked his first public engagement in weeks. Waving and giving a "thumps-up" before blessing the faithful gathered outside Rome's Gemelli Hospital, the pontiff briefly thanked one well-wisher for bringing flowers for the occasion. Pope Francis waves to the gathered faithful from the balcony at Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Sunday, March 23, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media/ScreenshotAfter the short interaction, the Holy Father was discharged from the hospital and taken to the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, where he delivered flowers to place before the...
Ho Chi Minh City People's Court building. / Credit: Duc Huy Nguyen/ShutterstockACI Africa, Mar 23, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).The African branch of the global Catholic activist organization CitizenGo is urging the government of Kenya to pursue diplomatic intervention for a Kenyan facing execution in Vietnam.CitizenGo Africa officials say the life of Margaret Nduta, a young Kenyan woman sentenced to die in Vietnam following a court ruling in July 2023, should be given top priority.In a March 16 report, CitizenGo officials said: "We urgently petition Hon. Musalia Mudavadi, prime cabinet secretary of the Republic of Kenya, to immediately intervene through diplomatic channels.""A simple diplomatic call from Nairobi to Hanoi could significantly alter Margaret's fate by advocating for her sentence to be commuted and served in Kenya, preventing her execution abroad," they added.As of March 19, the execution of Nduta, a 37-year-old Kenyan woman found guilty of drug trafficking, had been pos...
Pope Francis waves from a balcony at Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Sunday, March 23, 2025, following weeks of hospitalization for bilateral pneumonia. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNACNA Newsroom, Mar 23, 2025 / 07:04 am (CNA).Shortly before his expected release on Sunday, Pope Francis spoke about his long period of hospitalization during his Angelus address.The moment marked his first public engagement in weeks. Waving and giving a "thumps-up" before blessing the crowds gathered outside Rome's Gemelli Hospital, the pontiff briefly thanked one faithful for bringing flowers for the occasion. Pope Francis looks out at the crowd gathered below his hospital window at Rome's Gemelli Hospital on March 23, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media / ScreenshotAfter the short interaction, the Holy Father returned to his hospital room. The pontiff, scheduled to be discharged on March 23, prepared a written message published by the Vatican while briefly appearing at approximately noon to greet the faithful ...
Candles with Pope Francis' image on them stand outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Feb. 21, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNACNA Staff, Mar 22, 2025 / 14:09 pm (CNA).Pope Francis will be discharged from Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Sunday, the Vatican said on Saturday afternoon, with the Holy Father leaving the facility after spending more than a month there amid a health crisis. Hospital officials said on Saturday that the pope will continue convalescing at his apartment in Casa Santa Marta for at least two months.Francis first entered the hospital on Feb. 14, more than a month ago. He was treated for several conditions while there including bilateral pneumonia. Sergio Alfieri, the director of the department of medical and surgical sciences at the hospital, said at a Saturday press conference that Francis would undergo a "protected discharge" and that he will "still have to carry out" treatment "for a long time." The pope will continue to receive oxygen during his ongoing c...
Gemelli Hospital in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, Mar 22, 2025 / 13:47 pm (CNA).Pope Francis was admitted to Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis. Follow here for the latest news on his health and hospitalization:
Candles with Pope Francis' image on them stand outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Feb. 21, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNACNA Staff, Mar 22, 2025 / 14:09 pm (CNA).Pope Francis will be discharged from Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Sunday, the Vatican said on Saturday afternoon, with the Holy Father leaving the facility after spending more than a month there amid a health crisis. Hospital officials said on Saturday that the pope will continue convalescing at his apartment in Casa Santa Marta for at least two months.Francis first entered the hospital on Feb. 14, more than a month ago. He was treated for several conditions while there including bilateral pneumonia. Sergio Alfieri, the director of the department of medical and surgical sciences at the hospital, said at a Saturday press conference that Francis would undergo a "protected discharge" and that he will "still have to carry out" treatment "for a long time." The pope will continue to receive oxygen during his ongoing c...
Volunteers pray at a vigil at an abortion clinic in Ealing, West London, the site of the first "buffer zone" in the U.K. They are restricted by law from being closer than 500 meters (about 1,600 feet) to the clinic, more than the 150 meters (500 feet) imposed by the nationwide law in October 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of 40 Days for Life InternationalLondon, England, Mar 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).Across the United Kingdom this Lent, vigils outside abortion clinics have continued despite government attempts to stop their work of prayer for the unborn and offering of support to women with a crisis pregnancy.A total of 11 vigils in 10 cities across the United Kingdom are going ahead throughout Lent through the 40 Days for Life campaign, a similar number to what have taken place annually since the first U.K. vigil was held in 2009. This year they stretch from Glasgow in Scotland to Bournemouth on the southern coast of England.Volunteers for the campaign now agree to stay outsid...
A previous class of St. Kateri Rosary Walk interns. / Credit: Courtesy of St. Kateri Rosary WalkAnn Arbor, Michigan, Mar 22, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).A New Mexico diocese is offering a unique opportunity for young men to affirm their faith and literally build up the Church in the American Southwest.Until March 31, the Diocese of Gallup is accepting applications for the 2025 St. Kateri Rosary Walk internship program. Started in 2019, the program is finishing its building project and seeks to complete an outdoor plaza and chapel in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the saint known as the Lily of the Mohawks, St. Kateri Tekakwitha.The internship is available to young men 18 and over and runs from May until Aug. 1. The missionaries will receive free housing, meals, travel to various local sites, and a stipend of $5,000.William McCarthy, CEO of the Southwest Indian Foundation, which is cooperating with the program, told CNA that the program "provides intense leadership training to enc...
Bishop Markus Büchel of the Diocese of St. Gallen in Switzerland. / Credit: Aurelius1717, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 21, 2025 / 15:45 pm (CNA).Here are some of the major stories about the Church from around the world that you may have missed this week:Swiss bishop issues call on podcast for ordination of womenBishop Markus Büchel of the Swiss Diocese of St. Gallen spoke out in favor of women's ordination during a podcast appearance for a German-language online news outlet, kath.ch, CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner, reported Tuesday. The bishop argued his position stating that the Church has a "consecration emergency" due to the fact that only celebate men may enter the priesthood.German director of Münster academy defends award honoring Bishop Barron Following backlash over what some have called Bishop Robert Barron's "conservative" theological and political views, the director of the Münster Academy Franz-Hitze-Haus, J...
