The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope on Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection that doctors say remains touch and go and ...

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Francis’ doctors delivered their first in-person update on the pope’s condition on Friday, saying that he will remain hospitalised.

He continues to be without fever and "his hemodynamic parameters continue to be stable," said an evening bulletin Feb. 20.