Pope Francis goes to Rome hospital for intestinal surgery

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican says Pope Francis has gone to a

Rome

hospital for scheduled surgery for a stenosis, or restriction, of the large intestine.

The brief announcement Sunday afternoon didn't say when the surgery would be performed but it said there would be announcement when the surgery is complete.

Just three hours earlier,

Francis

had cheerfully greeted the public in St Peter's Square in keeping with a Sunday tradition and told them he will go to Hungary and

Slovakia

in September.

A week earlier, Francis, 84, had used the same traditional appearance to ask the public for special prayers for the pope, which, in hindsight might have been hinting at the planned surgery at Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic.
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