How is Pope Francis? Great news from the latest bulletin

The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matthew Bruni, announced updates on the health status of Papa Francesco.

“The Holy Father continues the planned treatment and rehabilitation, which will allow him to return to the Vatican as soon as possible. Among the many sick people he met in these days, he addresses a particular thought to those who are bedridden and cannot go home: may they live this time as an opportunity, even if lived in pain, to open up with tenderness to their sick brother or sister. in the next bed, with which we share the same human frailty ”, reads the bulletin.

Pope Francis, on the evening of Sunday 4th July. on Sunday evening he underwent a surgical operation for diverticular stenosis of the sigmoid colon, which involved a left hemicolectomy and lasted about 3 hours.

It was also learned that the Holy Father “has appointed Bishop of Covington (USA) Msgr. John C. Iffert, of the clergy of the Diocese of Belleville, currently Vicar General, Moderator of the Curia and Parish Priest of Saint Stephen Parish in Caseyville ”.

This was announced in a press release from the Holy See. The decision took place after accepting "the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Covington (USA), presented by Monsignor Roger Joseph Foys".

Iffert was born in 1967 in Du Quoin, in the diocese of Belleville, for which, since 1997, he has been a priest.