Pope Francis goes to Rome hospital for intestinal surgery

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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 world-regions Gemelli Polyclinic.