Pope Francis slept well, resting while health shows a slight improvement: the Vatican

Pope Francis I had a peaceful night and rested on Thursday morning, announced the Holy See, after doctors said the 88 -year -old pontiff has shown a lighter improvement while fighting double pneumonia.

Francis has been hospitalized for almost two weeks at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome for Pneumonia in its two lungs. He had breakfast and continued his therapy on Thursday morning in a good mood, authorities said.

“Pope slept well last night and is now resting,” said the Holy See in a brief statement. The results of more medical tests were expected later on Thursday.

The Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday night that doctors reported that the renal insufficiency that had been detected in recent days had retreated, blood tests showed a slight improvement and a computed tomography thorax showed that their complex lung infection was taking the “normal evolution” as it is.

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Pope Francis greets during an audience with Hungarian pilgrims in Pablo VI Hall in the Vatican on April 25, 2024. (Monteforte/AFP Fillipo through Getty)

The Vatican He also said that the Pope, who had part of a lung eliminated when he was young, remains in “high flow oxygherapy” but has not had more respiratory crises since Saturday.

While Francis’s health showed a “slight improvement,” said the Vatican, his “prognosis remains reserved.”

Catholic Faithful attends a prayer service of Night Rosary for the health of Pope Francis in the Plaza de San Pedro in the Vatican, on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Francis was admitted to the hospital on February 14 after an episode of a week bronchitis worse. The doctors first diagnosed the Viral complexInfection of the bacterial and fungal respiratory tract and, subsequently, the beginning of pneumonia in both lungs.

Catholic Faithful attends a prayer service of Night Rosary for the health of Pope Francis in the Plaza de San Pedro in the Vatican. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab elshamy)

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On Thursday he marked Francis on the 13th in the hospital, overcoming his papacy’s longest hospitalization. He spent 10 days at the Gemelli hospital in 2021 after he was removed 13 inches from colon.

Anders Hagstrom of Fox News Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.