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The Vatican on Friday said Pope Francis is showing improvement as he battles double pneumonia, but will not lead an annual Church service next week to open the Christian season of Lent.
The 88-year-old catholic pontiff has now spent two weeks in Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where he was admitted on February 14 with a severe respiratory infection that triggered other complications.
The Vatican has not said how long the pope will remain in the hospital, but it announced on Friday that Francis would not lead the traditional Ash Wednesday service on March 5, signaling that his hospitalization may continue into next week.
The annual Church service, which starts the 40 days leading up to Easter Sunday, was instead entrusted to a senior Vatican official.
In a medical update on Thursday, the Vatican said the pontiff’s condition continued to show improvement, adding, however, that his prognosis remained guarded due to the complexity of his infection.
Francis, who has been pontiff since 2013 and is often described as working himself to exhaustion, has continued leading the Vatican from the hospital.
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