‘Five days after a tracheotomy to relieve breathing problems, Pope John Paul II was able to say Mass in his hospital room, meet with aides and continue initial sessions of speech therapy, the Vatican said.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger brought the pope some papers to work on March 1 and later told reporters that the pontiff had spoken to him — in two languages, German and Italian.

“The pope was able and alert, and he’ll work on the things I brought him,� said the cardinal, who heads the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told reporters the same day that the pope’s recovery was completely normal and that he had spent another peaceful night at Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic.’

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