Pope Leo XIV, medical bulletin: "Constant improvement". Angelus hypothesis from Gemini

"Constant improvement" of Pope Leo's condition. Doctor Luigi Carbone and Professor Stefano Margaritora, who are treating the Pontiff at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, communicated this in today's medical bulletin.

"The Holy Father - they say - this morning performed blood tests and a chest x-ray, which confirmed the constant improvement of his general conditions. The respiratory physiotherapy sessions continued. Post-operative recovery allows him to carry out normal daily activities in complete autonomy".

On the third post-operative day, Pope Leo slowly resumed his work activity even if, at the moment, it is too early to make predictions regarding the next commitments on the agenda. The expected timescale of a week of hospitalization from the moment of entry to the moment has not been changed by the doctors, as reported by the Vatican press office in response to journalists who ask if there is a hypothesis of the Pope leaving as early as tomorrow. "For now we have no communications of changes", they underlined from the press room. The Pope, as reported, is "in good spirits" and today "continued his work". The press office also confirmed, without specifying where and in what form, that "the Angelus will take place". Already yesterday, Cardinal Parolin had made it known that it is impossible to know when the Holy Father will return to the Vatican but that, if the progress of his convalescence allows it, Leo could make the Angelus from Gemini.

Pope Leo XIV underwent an operation on October 13 to remove a malignant tumor from a lung. The intervention, which concluded positively, within the expected time and manner, was announced by the Pontiff himself during the Angelus on 11 October. What remains in doubt are the programs on the agenda in the near future: in particular the question mark is on the trip to South America, scheduled for 6 to 17 November. Pope Leo would have to travel over 30 thousand kilometers between Uruguay, Argentina and Peru: a demanding journey with travel by plane, helicopter and car that is not easy to sustain after an intervention of this type.

The Pope, who is slowly resuming his work activities from the hospital, today appointed two new bishops. The appointments, as the Vatican press office reports, concern the auxiliary bishops of the archdiocese of Madrid: the rev. Fernando Murga Gómez and the rev. Andrés Martínez Esteban. Meanwhile, Monsignor Fernando Chica Arellano, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations organizations, read a message from the Pontiff on the occasion of World Food Day in the Plenary Hall of the FAO headquarters in Rome. "By helping the earth to produce its fruits, humanity does not limit itself to carrying out a technical operation, but fulfills the command to care for the land and cultivate it, a command that precedes any legal framework and any technological innovation - read the Monsignor - Nonetheless, we currently find ourselves in a paradoxical situation, in which global progress advances at an increasingly rapid pace, while hunger and poverty continue to persist. This is not a technical or financial problem, but rather a profound crisis anthropology and ethics". Hunger, Arellano added when reading Leone's message, "cannot be considered a statistical anomaly, since it is mainly caused by the lack of political will and collective solidarity". "Regular access - continues the Pope in the message - to safe, adequate and sufficient food, in line with the dignity of every person, is a fundamental human right".