🌅 VATICAN REPORT | Saturday 17 October 2026 morning

🏥 The Pope at the Gemelli Pope Leo XIV remains at the Gemelli Hospital. In the latest update Luigi Carbone and Stefano Margaritora report that blood tests and a chest X-ray confirm the "steady improvement in general condition", and that the Pope carries out daily activities "with complete autonomy". Some newspapers suggest he could be discharged as early as today, but there is no confirmation: on Friday the Press Office said that "for now we have no communications of changes". Audiences remain cancelled until Tuesday 20 October. 🙏 Rome prays for the Pope At 3 p.m., in the Basilica of Santa Maria in via Lata, a Mass of and with the poor is celebrated "for peace and for the health of Leo XIV". In the evening, at 7 p.m., according to the programme of International Catholic Action, Pietro Parolin will lead a Marian vigil at St Mary Major. 📞 After the call with Putin The Pope's appeal to Vladimir Putin for a humanitarian truce in Oleshky, in the Kherson region, to let aid in and allow the safe evacuation of civilians, remains in focus. 📌 To watch • New medical update and possible discharge • Tomorrow's Angelus: the Press Office says "it will take place", place and format to be set • Resignations and appointments in today's Bulletin #LeoXIV #Vatican