The 86-year-old was in a wheelchair when he left the hospital.
, with his surgeon saying the pontiff is now “better than before” the hospitalization.
Right after the pontiff returned home, the Vatican press office announced that Francis would make his traditional Sunday noon appearance at an Apostolic window overlooking St. Peter’s Square to greet the public, an appointment that lasts about 10 minutes. But before he arrived back home, Francis made two more stops — first at a convent adjacent to the Vatican to greet nuns, and then outside one of the walled city’s gates to get out of his car so he could shake hands with and thank police officers who provided a motorcycle escort.
Alfieri has said that the pontiff, in choosing to have the surgery in June, made his calculations that he would bounce back in time for the August trip to Portugal. “He has confirmed all” his trips, the surgeon said. As a young man in his native Argentina, Francis had a portion of one lung removed following infection.
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