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.

Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, is not in danger of death, but has not been fully cured and his condition could yet change, one of his doctors said on Friday. "Is he out of danger?

A doctor for Pope Francis said he isn't out of danger, but his current condition is not life-threatening. The doctor spoke moments ago outside the hospital in Rome, where the 88-year-old pontiff has been since last Friday.