Pope Francis denounces war in Sudan, suggests living Lent 'as a time of healing'

Pope Francis delivered his Sunday Angelus prayer via written text, and is still recovering from a respiratory infection. He was released from the hospital last week.

"Dearest friends, let us live this Lent as a time of healing, all the more as it is the Jubilee," Francis said. "I too am experiencing it this way, in my soul and in my body."

"That is why I give heartfelt thanks to all those who, in the image of the Saviour, are instruments of healing for their neighbour with their word and their knowledge, with kindness and with prayer," he continued. "Frailty and illness are experiences we all have in common; all the more, however, we are brothers in the salvation Christ has given us."