Pope Francis, who was hospitalized on Friday, February 14 with a respiratory tract infection that evolved into pneumonia, was discharged from the hospital on Sunday, March 23. He made a brief public appearance on the balcony of the hospital,

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it hard to speak publicly.

The pope was initially admitted on Feb. 14 for bronchitis Pope Francis has been discharged from the hospital. Following 38 days in the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome, the pope, 88, made his first public appearance on Sunday,