Doctors order 'absolute rest' for Pope Francis due to respiratory infection

A marble statue of late Pope John Paul II is backdropped on Saturday by the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, where Pope Francis was hospitalized after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened.

Doctors prescribed "absolute rest" for Pope Francis, the Vatican said Saturday, a day after the 88-year-old pope was admitted to a hospital following a weeklong bout of bronchitis.

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