Pope Francis is making expected clinical progress and is gradually resuming work from the hospital.

The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, shared this in an update he communicated in today’s July 10 statement.

Tomorrow, the Pontiff will follow in the tradition of Francis’ predecessor, Pope St. John Paul II, who on various occasions prayed the Angelus from the Roman hospital known for caring for popes on its 10th floor.

In these days, Pope Francis has expressed his closeness to children with cancer or going in for brain surgery, as well as to all who suffer.

On Wednesday afternoon, in a message, the Pope “expressed his paternal closeness to the young patients in the nearby pediatric oncology and children’s neurosurgery wards, sending them his affectionate greetings.”

Statements have confirmed that the Pope is continuing with good and satisfactory progress and acknowledged that the final histological examination “confirmed a severe diverticular stenosis with signs of sclerosing diverticulitis.”

Here is the Vatican-provided English statement given by Matteo Bruni in today’s noon bulletin, providing the most recent update on the Pope:

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[Vatican-provided official statement]