After leaving hospital yesterday, Pope leads Palm Sunday Mass

ROME – Despite being discharged from the hospital just a day prior, Pope Francis presided over an outdoor Palm Sunday Mass in a brisk St. Peter’s Square, telling believers to embrace those who feel abandoned like Jesus did on the cross.

Francis led Sunday’s Mass from a chair in front of the main altar, while the vice dean of the Vatican’s College of Cardinals, fellow Argentinian Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, celebrated at the altar.

By now, this mode of leading papal liturgies has become customary for Francis...