Pope Francis waves as he appears on the balcony of a hospital in Rome on Sunday ... Only St. John Paul II recorded a longer hospitalization in 1981, when he spent 55 days at Gemelli for minor ...

Catholics in Rome gathered to pray outside the hospital ... with reverence toward the white marble statue of former Pope John Paul II, which towers over a small square outside the Gemelli Hospital ...

ROME (AP) — A weak and frail Pope Francis ... impacted the numbers of expected pilgrims arriving. Only St. John Paul II recorded a longer hospitalization in 1981, when he spent 55 days ...

Only St. John Paul II recorded a longer hospitalization in 1981, when he spent 55 days at Gemelli for minor surgery and treatment of an infection. —Associated Press writers Giada Zampano in Rome and ...