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Pope Francis is responding “positively” to medical treatment for pneumonia, according to the Vatican, a week after the 88-year-old pontiff was hospitalized in Rome.

The Vatican says Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both his lungs, after new tests showed a further complication in the ...