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04 July 2021 The news was given, in the early afternoon, by the Vatican press office: first the Italian agencies relaunched it, immediately after the international ones, it bounced on Twitter and quickly ended up on the websites of the big newspapers and networks, first of all the Argentine ones. Thus the news of Pope Francis, hospitalized at the Gemelli Polyclinic to undergo a scheduled surgery, quickly went around the planet. All issued the announcement of the Holy See, which spoke of "a surgical intervention planned for a symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon", but many also underlined how a few hours earlier the pontiff had presented himself, in good health, to the traditional Angelus prayers, in St. Peter's Square: among other things,from the window of his office in the Apostolic Palace, Francis announced that he will travel to Slovakia from 12 to 15 September and will also meet Viktor Orban in Hungary.



From CNN (which made a breaking news) to the Guardian, everyone underlined that what he will be subjected to is "a planned intervention". Drudge Report, the US-based news aggregation site founded by Matt Drudge, also opened the news. The news immediately conquered the front pages of Argentine newspapers, the


Nacion even with the opening: "Pope Francis has been hospitalized and will be operated on tonight".