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Pope Francis is undergoing treatment at a hospital as he continues fighting pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection.

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If you really want him to rest, you have to hospitalize him,” quipped one cardinal about the notoriously active pope.

As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical ...

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Vatican reports Pope Francis showing improvement after week-long hospitalization for pneumonia and respiratory infection.