Pope Francis visited Juárez as part of a five-day journey into Mexico. He arrived at the Abraham Gonzalez International Airport in Juárez on Feb. 17, 2016, where he was greeted by about 1,500 young altar servers.

Fisher will be main celebrant and homilist at a special Mass Tuesday allowing area Catholics to join in prayer on behalf of Pope Francis, who was in a Rome hospital in critical condition with pneumonia and kidney problems.

Pope Francis remained in a critical condition Sunday and blood tests showed early kidney failure but he remains alert, responsive and attended Mass, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old pontiff battles pneumonia and a complex lung infection.

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Sunday and blood tests showed early kidney failure but he remains alert, responsive and attended Mass, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old pontiff battles pneumonia and a complex lung infection.

The Vatican says Pope Francis is stable and that he followed Mass on television after a second night sleeping well at the hospital

After Pope Francis put out a call to be thoughtful about AI’s deployment, a delegation of Massachusetts public officials will be answering it. A local contingent assembled by UMass Boston chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco heads to the Vatican next week for an AI conference hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

The Vatican says the "criticality" of Pope Francis health condition "has subsided for the moment," but he's still hospitalized and the "prognosis remains guarded."

Despite his hospitalization, the pope has maintained a degree of governance and authorized the appointment of four new bishops.

The Vatican said Wednesday that Pope Francis has shown further slight improvement as he battles double pneumonia, but doctors still say his prognosis is still guarded. A CT chest scan taken Tuesday evening showed the “normal evolution” of an infection as it is being treated.

Pope Francis’ declining health in recent weeks has sparked renewed curiosity about Vatican traditions. The 88-year-old pope, who has been battling double pneumonia in hospital for two weeks, had an ‘isolated breathing crisis’ shortly after 2pm today,

The Vatican issued a medical update saying Pope Francis' prognosis remains "guarded," but he is "alert" and even joking with visitors.