Pope Francis is in a "stable" condition after spending a "calm night" in hospital, the Vatican has said.
The Pontiff has been in hospital in Rome for more than two weeks with double pneumonia.
"The pope is still resting," the Vatican said in its latest health update on the 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis was hospitalised on 14 February with bronchitis, but his condition deteriorated into double pneumonia.
Medical experts have warned that his age and the chronic respiratory disease from which he suffers mean a sustained recovery will take time.
The Pope, head of the world's nearly 1.4 billion Catholics, had part of one of his lungs removed as a young man and has suffered increasing health problems in recent years.
He is prone to bronchitis and suffers from hip and knee pain which has made him reliant on a wheelchair.