As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical but not immediately life-threatening.

"Is he out of danger? No. But if the question is 'is he in danger of death,' the answer is 'no," said the doctor of Pope Francis.

“The pope is fine,” Sergio Alfieri, the head surgeon at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where the pope is being treated, said during the news conference at the hospital. “Is the pope out of danger? No, the pope is not out of danger,” he said, but specified Francis is not in a life-threatening situation.