Pope Francis Released From Hospital

Pope Francis has been released from the hospital. He has sufficiently recovered from a difficult battle with double pneumonia. He made a brief public appearance for the Sunday  Angelus. Further therapy, rest, and recuperation will continue at his residence at Casa Santa Marta.

Thanks be to God!

During his illness, the Pope has been communicating through writing, and has expressed his gratitude for our prayers and his offering of his suffering in solidarity with the sick throughout the world.

I found consolation in his accompaniment, and encouragement to live and offer my own strange and debilitating illnesses in union with Jesus, in the Communion of the Church. Suffering is not "worthless." In Christ and through His grace, it can become a way of loving.

Lord have mercy on this poor world, in the gathering darkness, the violence and inhumanity, and in all the incomprehensible sorrows that so many endure.