ROME (AP) — Pope Francis entered the fifth week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia on Saturday with signs of recovery ...

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Pope Francis recorded a message thanking well-wishers at St. Peter's Square for their prayers, but it also revealed just how ...

... his prayer that brings together both the vertical and horizontal is the "perfect prayer" as it comes from Jesus.

The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, is battling pneumonia.