Rome, Italy — Pope Francis has drunk liquids, received the Eucharist and made a brief phone call on his first full day recovering from a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the Vatican says.
Francis, 86, rested “extensively” overnight at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where his condition was stable and his post-operative recovery deemed to be regular, the Vatican said in a statement on Thursday.
