Pope Francis publicly acknowledged that this Lenten season is the time of treatment for their soul and body.
On Sunday, Vatican released the recitation of Angelus prayer on Sunday, Francis. It is the seventh straight Sunday that his illness has stopped him from blessing a window on St. Peter Square as usual.
Francis said, “The most dear friends, we live this leent as the time of treatment, it is as a birth anniversary as all.” “I am also experiencing it in this way, in my soul and in my body.”
“This is why I give heartfelt thanks to all those who are in the image of the Savior, with their words for their neighbor and their knowledge, with mercy and prayer,” he continued. “Fraud and disease are experiences that are equal in all of us; all, however, we are brothers in liberation, Christ has given us.”
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The Pope Francis leaves in a car in a car, which appears on a window of Agostino Jemeli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he was being treated. (AP/Stephano Costantino)
His remarks focused on the South Sudan, with the world struggles, where he said “the war continues to claim innocent victims.”
He said, “I urge the parties concerned in the struggle to give the safety of the lives of their citizen brothers and sisters first, and I hope that new dialogues will start as soon as possible, capable of achieving permanent solutions to the crisis,” he said. “The international community increased its efforts to address human destruction.”
Pope Francis makes the first public appearance in five weeks

On Sunday, 23 March 2025, on Sunday, March 23, 2025, Avostino Jemeli Polyclinic of Rome for a live broadcast for a live broadcast on a live screen for a live broadcasting gathering at St. Peter Square in Vatican, gathering, where Pope Francis made his first public presence as he was admitted to hospital with bipoly Nimonia on 14 February. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
According to the Holy Press office, 88 -year -old Pontiff is still recovering from a respiratory infection. He continues to get away from the support of oxygen during the day and night, and his blood levels are normal. However, his medical team ordered a strict convoy period of at least two months after the release of his hospital last week.
Francis said Pontif’s five -week hospital hospitalized, “Really surprising improvement”.

Surgeon Sergio Alfiary spoke to reporters on Saturday, March 22, 2025 at the entry hall of Agostino Jamelli Polyclinic of Rome, where Pope Francis has been treated for bilateral pneumonia since 14 February 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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“I find him very vibrant,” Dr. Sergio Alfiary said, “Three days after his release from Jamelli Hospital in Rome, after visiting the Pope in his apartment in Santa Marta Domus on Wednesday.” “I believe he was not 100%, not 90%, where he was earlier.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.