Pope Francis Goes to Rome Hospital for Intestinal Surgery

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis went to a Rome clinic for scheduled surgery for a stenosis, or restriction, of the huge intestine, the Vatican mentioned Sunday.

The short announcement from the Holy See’s press office did not say precisely when the surgery would be done but mentioned there would be an announcement when it was full.

Just a few several hours earlier, Pope Francis, 84 years previous, experienced cheerfully greeted the community in St. Peter’s Sq. in keeping with a Sunday custom and informed them he would go to Hungary and Slovakia in September.

A week earlier, the pope experienced used the very same physical appearance to question the community for unique prayers for himself, which, in hindsight could possibly have been hinting at the prepared surgery at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic, a Catholic teaching clinic.

The Vatican mentioned the pope experienced been identified with “symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon,” a reference to a narrowing in the huge intestine. The surgery was to be done by Sergio Alfieri, the director of Gemelli’s digestive-surgery department.