Pope Francis, in hospital with pneumonia, suffered a breathing "crisis" on Friday which caused him to vomit, but he was given air and responded well, the Vatican said.The crisis came just hours after a Vatican source said the 88-year-old pontiff's condition was no-longer considered critical,

The Vatican said Francis, 88, who has been hospitalized for pneumonia, was responding well to treatment, and that it was too soon to say how serious the incident was. By Elisabetta Povoledo Pope Francis, hospitalized for two weeks, suffered a potentially ...

The Vatican’s early Friday update also suggested a level of normalcy and routine as the 88-year-old pope continues recovering at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital.

Statements from the Vatican show that the pope's health is improving, and doctors are no longer describing him for a second day in a row as being in a critical condition, though they had previously said that he was not out of danger.

Over the past few days, the 88-year-old pope was seeing signs of his health improving as he battles double pneumonia.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis reached the two-week mark recovery from pneumonia Friday as doctors suggested he had overcome the most critical phase of the infection while holding out on declaring him out of danger entirely.