Pope Francis is showing a "good response" to his treatment in hospital for double pneumonia and his overall condition is gradually improving, the Vatican said on Saturday. Francis, 88, has been in Rome's Gemelli hospital for more than three weeks with a severe respiratory infection that has required continuously evolving treatment.

Pope Francis is working from his bed at Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital, where he has been since Feb. 14 amid a scary bout of double pneumonia, but the 88-year-old is not out of the woods yet. “The night passed quietly;