Pope Francis Recovering From Planned Intestinal Surgery

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis “reacted well” to prepared intestinal operation Sunday night at a Rome hospital, the Vatican stated, without having supplying a lot detail about the pontiff’s issue.

In a statement late Sunday, a Holy See spokesman, Matteo Bruni, stated the 84-12 months-previous Francis had basic anesthesia during the operation necessitated by a stenosis, or narrowing, of the sigmoid portion of the big intestine.

He didn’t say how very long operation lasted. Nor did Mr. Bruni show if the pope had regained consciousness just after the anesthesia or how very long Francis was predicted to continue to be in Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic. Francis was predicted to convalesce in a particular tenth-flooring suite reserved for popes.

“The Holy Father, admitted in the afternoon to A. Gemelli Polyclinic, underwent in the night prepared operation for a diverticular stenosis of the sigmoid” portion of the colon, Mr. Bruni stated in a quick penned statement. “The Holy Father reacted properly to the operation executed underneath basic anesthesia,” the spokesman stated, noting there was a 4-man or woman surgical workforce, as well as a 4-man or woman anesthesiologist workforce.

It was a extraordinary finish to a working day that started publicly for Francis when, during his classic Sunday visual appeal to the devoted in St. Peter’s Square, he cheerfully announced he would go to Hungary and Slovakia in September. The pope designed no point out of his impending operation but headed shortly just after to Gemelli, a Catholic teaching hospital.