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By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City and Gemelli hospital in Rome ... windows of his 10th-floor hospital suite to see their art. They offered encouragement, wishing that the pope ...

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Sunday (March 16) released the first image of Pope Francis in hospital since he began treatment for double pneumonia, in which the 88-year-old pontiff appeared to ...