Pope Francis was taken to a Rome hospital for scheduled surgery on his large intestine, the Vatican reported Sunday.
The brief statement did not indicate when the surgery for stenosis, or constriction, would be performed, but
added that an announcement would be made when it was completed.
[Pope Francis rejects the possibility that married men can be priests]
Just three hours earlier, Francisco happily greeted those gathered in St. Peter's Square, according to Sunday tradition.
He told them that he would go to Hungary and Slovakia in September.
Pope Francis blesses the crowd during the Angelus prayer, in the window of his study overlooking St. Peter's Square, in the Vatican, on Sunday, July 4, 2021. AP / Alessandra Tarantino / AP
A week earlier, 84-year-old Francisco took advantage of the same traditional apparition to ask those gathered for a special prayer for himself, which - in retrospect - may have been an indication of the scheduled surgery at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome.
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