‘When the crowd calls, Pope John Paul II can’t resist. With several hundred people, including singing children, gathered beneath his 10th-floor hospital suite, the frail pontiff appeared at a window Wednesday to wave and give the sign of the cross.

The brief appearance was his third since he was rushed back to Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic for throat surgery nearly two weeks ago and came as a surprise - his spokesman had said he had no plans to do it.

The 84-year-old pontiff appeared shortly before noon on a day when he traditionally holds his weekly public audience at the Vatican, an event that draws thousands of pilgrims.’

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