Pope delights faithful at hospital window
A frail Pope John Paul II reappeared today at a window of the hospital treating him for his latest health crisis, giving the world its second glimpse of him since he was rushed back to the clinic with breathing trouble 11 days ago.
Wearing his white vestments, the 84-year-old Pope waved and made the sign of the cross to several hundred cheering pilgrims who gathered in the damp chill at a small square with a view of his 10th-floor suite at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic hospital.
