Pope Francis has rested well, the Vatican Press Office said on Saturday morning.
    The Vatican Press Office also said Saturday that Sunday's Angelus will be delivered only as a written text, like last Sunday.
    In the text of his Angelus address last week, the pope thanked the health professionals treating him at Rome's Agostino Gemelli hospital and said he needed therapy.
    The 88-year-old Argentine pontiff did not read out the address because doctors have said he needs absolute rest.
    The morning update was issued after the head of the medical team treating the pontiff at Rome's Agostino Gemelli Hospital said on Friday afternoon that he is not out of danger and knows his situation is serious as he battles pneumonia but he is not in a life-threatening condition and is still in such good spirits that he cracks jokes about his situation.
    "The pope is not out of danger," said Professor Sergio Alfieri in a press briefing at the Gemelli Hospital.
    "But his life is not in danger now," he said, adding "today he went to the chapel to pray" and saying "he's in good spirits and makes quips" about his health.
    Alfieri said the pope would stay in hospital at least for the next week.
    He said Francis is not attached to any machine to help him breathe.
    "When he has to, he inserts his nostrils for a bit of oxygen, but he's breathing on his own and feeding himself".
    He added that Francis had "always wanted us to tell the truth" about his condition in his medical bulletins.
    The pope has a lung infection and the real danger is his contracting sepsis in his blood from it, Alfieri went on.
    "The Pope has a lung infection and if by chance one of these germs were to pass into the blood, there would be sepsis, the real risk is if the germs pass into the blood.
    "Today there are no such germs in the blood, the infection is now only in the lung.
    "This is the real risk that a person of his age can run", he added, referring to the hypothesis of sepsis.
   

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