Pope Francis Goes to Rome Hospital for Intestinal Surgery

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis went to a Rome hospital for scheduled surgical procedures for a stenosis, or restriction, of the substantial intestine, the Vatican reported Sunday.

The transient announcement from the Holy See’s push office did not say precisely when the surgical procedures would be executed but reported there would be an announcement when it was finish.

Just 3 several hours before, Pope Francis, eighty four many years aged, experienced cheerfully greeted the general public in St. Peter’s Square in trying to keep with a Sunday custom and informed them he would go to Hungary and Slovakia in September.

A 7 days before, the pope experienced utilised the exact visual appeal to question the general public for special prayers for himself, which, in hindsight may have been hinting at the prepared surgical procedures at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic, a Catholic educating hospital.

The Vatican reported the pope experienced been diagnosed with “symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon,” a reference to a narrowing in the substantial intestine. The surgical procedures was to be executed by Sergio Alfieri, the director of Gemelli’s digestive-surgical procedures division.