Pope Francis has 'progressively improved' in hospital stay for respiratory infection, Vatican says

Pope Francis has "progressively improved" after spending the night in the hospital with a respiratory infection, the Vatican Press Office said Thursday.

The pontiff rested well during the night, Matteo Bruni, director of the Press Office of the Holy See, said in a statement issued in Italian.

"The clinical picture is progressively improving, and the planned treatments continue," Bruni said, according to a translation. "This morning after having breakfast, he read some newspapers and went back to work. Before lunch he went to the little chapel of the private apartment,...