Pope Francis denounces war in Sudan, suggests living Lent 'as a time of healing'

Pope Francis publically acknowledged that this Lenten play is simply a clip of healing for his psyche and body.

On Sunday, the Vatican released the substance of Francis' prepared Sunday Angelus prayer. It is the seventh consecutive Sunday that his unwellness has prevented him from delivering the blessing from a model implicit St. Peter's Square arsenic usual. 

"Dearest friends, fto america unrecorded this Lent arsenic a clip of healing, each the much arsenic it is the Jubilee," Francis said. "I excessively americium experiencing it this way, successful my psyche and successful my body."

"That is wherefore I springiness heartfelt acknowledgment to each those who, successful the representation of the Saviour, are instruments of healing for their neighbour with their connection and their knowledge, with kindness and with prayer," helium continued. "Frailty and unwellness are experiences we each person successful common; each the more, however, we are brothers successful the salvation Christ has fixed us."

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Pope Francis leaves successful a car aft appearing astatine a model of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic successful Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, wherever helium was being treated. (AP/Stefano Costantino)

His remarks past turned to satellite conflicts, with a absorption connected South Sudan, wherever helium said "the warfare continues to assertion guiltless victims."

"I impulse the parties acrophobic successful the struggle to enactment the safeguarding of the lives of their civilian brothers and sisters first; and I anticipation that caller negotiations volition statesman arsenic soon arsenic possible, susceptible of securing a lasting solution to the crisis," helium said. "May the planetary assemblage summation its efforts to code the appalling humanitarian catastrophe."

POPE FRANCIS MAKES FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN FIVE WEEKS 

Faithful and pilgrims stitchery successful St. Peter's Square astatine The Vatican to travel connected elephantine screens a unrecorded broadcast from Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, connected Sunday, March 23, 2025, wherever Pope Francis made his archetypal nationalist quality since helium was hospitalized connected Feb. 14 with bilateral pneumonia.  (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The 88-year-old pontiff is inactive recovering from a respiratory infection, according to the Holy See Press Office. He continues to beryllium weaned disconnected oxygen enactment during the time and night, and his humor levels are normal. However, his aesculapian squad has ordered a strict convalescence play of astatine slightest 2 months pursuing his infirmary merchandise past week. 

Francis has shown "a genuinely astonishing improvement," the doc who coordinated the pontiff’s five-week hospitalization said Saturday.

Surgeon Sergio Alfieri speaks to journalists connected Saturday, March 22, 2025, successful the entranceway hallway of Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, wherever Pope Francis has been treated for bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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"I find him precise lively," Dr. Sergio Alfieri said, aft visiting the pope astatine his flat successful the Santa Marta Domus connected Wednesday, 3 days aft his merchandise from Rome’s Gemelli hospital. "I judge that helium volition instrumentality if not to 100%, 90% of wherever helium was before."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.