LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A special mass of healing was held Tuesday morning for Pope Francis as he remains hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia.
Dozens of people attended the mass at Holy Family Catholic Church on Poplar Level Road. Archbishop Shelton Fabre served as the main celebrant for the mass.
"Certainly, right now, Catholics around the world and people of goodwill around the world are worried about Pope Francis," Fabre said before mass.
On Tuesday morning, the Vatican’s typically brief morning update said: "The pope slept well, all night."
The previous evening, doctors had said he remained in critical condition at Rome's Gemelli hospital with double pneumonia but reported a "slight improvement" in some laboratory results. In the most upbeat bulletin in days, the Vatican said Francis had resumed work from his hospital room, calling a parish in Gaza City that he has kept in touch with since the war there began.
Doctors have said the condition of the Argentine pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, is touch-and-go, given his age, fragility and pre-existing lung disease before the pneumonia set in.
But in Monday’s update, they said he hadn’t had any more respiratory crises since Saturday, and the flow and concentration of supplemental oxygen has been slightly reduced. The slight kidney insufficiency detected on Sunday was not causing alarm at the moment, doctors said.
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