Met with warm applause from the crowd of faithful who had gathered in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday morning, Pope Leo XIV appeared punctually at noon at the window of the Apostolic Palace to lead the Angelus prayer.
Leo XIV was discharged on Saturday from Rome’s Gemelli hospital after a five‑day stay following the removal of the lower lobe of his right lung, due to the presence of a pulmonary adenocarcinoma.