Pope Francis finally discharged from hospital after more than five weeks

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Pope Francis finally made his first public appearance and was discharged from Rome's Gemelli hospital in Italy on Sunday (March 23). The 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church returned to the Vatican after being hospitalised for more than five weeks due to double pneumonia.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Bravo!

00:01He has seen a suffering quite evident and let's say with a few seconds he made me

00:25a bit of impression but let's say I wish him a quick recovery and a quick return as it was before.

00:55This is the first time that people have seen him since he entered the hospital on February 14th.

01:22Now the papacy is definitely entering a new phase, perhaps a final phase regardless of how much longer he lives.

01:32He had double pneumonia, he's missing one lung, he's 88 years old.

01:40It seems to be almost impossible that the papacy will return to the way it was before he entered the hospital.

01:49He is not totally healed. He still has to convalesce for about two months which is quite a long time.

01:56And he also has to continue taking medicines and also continue oxygen therapy.

02:03There's been a lot of speculation about whether Pope Francis will resign after this health crisis.

02:11It's difficult to say. On the one hand he has said that it should not become a fashion, is the word he used,

02:19for popes to resign instead of rule for life as Pope Benedict did in 2013.

02:27That said it depends on how he thinks that he will be able to run the church after this illness.

02:41He can't get close to giant groups, we can see it, he has a nosebleed.

02:58Excuse me, excuse me, I have to go away, I have to be patient for a moment.

03:05Good morning.

03:07Good morning.

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