Pope leaves hospital after more than five weeks

Pope Francis greeted and thanked the faithful from a balcony of Rome's Gemelli hospital Sunday, the first time the 88-year-old has been seen in public since his admission on February 14. 

The head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, who has spent over five weeks in hospital battling pneumonia, was on the balcony for two minutes then was discharged immediately. Doctors have said that his health has improved sufficiently for him to go home, but that he still faces a long recovery of at least two months.