Pope Imparts Blessing From Hospital Window

"I Continue to Serve the Church," He Says

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 6, 2005 (Zenit.org).- After five days of hospitalization, John Paul II addressed the world via television to impart his apostolic blessing from the window of the Gemelli Polyclinic.

"Also here in hospital, in the midst of the other patients, to whom I address my affectionate greetings, I continue to serve the Church and the whole of humanity," said the Pope in the message read in his name today by Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, substitute of the Vatican Secretariat of State.

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