Claudio Lavanga is Rome-based foreign correspondent for NBC News.
Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, looking healthy and in good spirits as he waved at crowds gathered for Easter services on Sunday. For the past few months the pope has been battling frequent bouts of bronchitis, cold and flu, with regular visits to the hospitals for checks on his lungs. Respiratory problems and a chronic cough have often led him to ask his aides to read passages of speeches for him, and cancel private audiences.
“It is clear to anyone watching Pope Francis in these years, he doesn’t make decisions based on what others think or what others tell him to do.” “Concerns that it could be something more worrying, didn’t seem to have great foundations as Pope Francis certainly seemed to be able to recite his appeals at the end of the mass and circle around afterward greeting the enthusiastic crowds in St.
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