Pope Francis returned to the Vatican Sunday morning for the first time since being hospitalized five weeks ago. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church, using a wheelchair and wearing nasal tubes for oxygen,

A weak and frail Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican from the hospital on Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia.

Pope Francis is making his first public appearance in five weeks before being discharged Sunday from the hospital, where he survived a severe case of pneumonia that twice threatened his life and raised the prospect of a papal resignation or funeral.