The 71-year-old is leaving the Gemelli Clinic after a positive postoperative course.
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The 71-year-old pope was receiving medical treatment at the Gemelli Clinic in Rome after a procedure.
Pope Leo XIV will be released from the clinic this Saturday. The Vatican announced on Saturday that his treating doctors, Luigi Carbone and Stefano Margaritora, had decided this in view of his postoperative course. Renewed blood tests and radiological checks of his chest as well as an assessment of the overall clinical picture showed that the 71-year-old was ready.
He is scheduled to leave the Gemelli Clinic in northwest Rome in the early afternoon for the Vatican. On Sunday at 12 noon, Leo XIV wanted to lead the midday prayer as usual from his study high above St. Peter's Square. Before he is released, he also wants to celebrate a mass on Saturday lunchtime, as he did on Friday, in a specially equipped room on the tenth floor of the hospital.
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Pope Leo XIV leads the midday prayer on Sunday from his study.
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