‘The chronic illness remains’ but the pontiff, 88, is stable and ‘in good humour’, one of his doctors says

Pope Francis, who is in hospital undergoing treatment for double pneumonia, is “not yet out of danger” and will remain in hospital for at least the whole of next week, one of his doctors has said.

Francis, 88, was stable but “the chronic illness remains”, Sergio Alfieri, a general surgeon at Rome’s Gemelli university hospital, told reporters on Friday.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/21/pope-francis-not-yet-out-of-danger-and-to-stay-at-least-another-week-in-hospital