Pope Francis marks 12 remarkable years leading the Catholic Church from his hospital room

Pope Francis marks 12 remarkable years leading the Catholic Church from his hospital roomToday, March 13, marks the 12th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis as the 265th successor of St. Peter. As he enters the 13th year of his ministry as bishop of Rome, Francis is not in the Vatican; he is instead a patient in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he has been treated for double pneumonia for the past 28 days and is now out of imminent danger and recovering.Gemelli Hospital has become a second Vatican, a Vatican 2, one might say, because Francis continues to govern...