VATICAN CITY-- Pope Francis is not out of danger and doctors continued to reserve their prognosis Saturday a day after he suffered a new breathing crisis accompanied by vomiting, meaning he had to be placed on artificial respiration, Vatican sources said.

 The pontiff, 88, had recovered sufficiently Saturday to have a solid breakfast including coffee and read daily newspapers after a good night's sleep but the new broncospasm on Friday afternoon was evidently a setback after two days when doctors had spoken of improvement during his treatment for double pneumonia at the Gemelli Polyclinic hospital in Rome, the sources said.

 Francis is able to move around his 10th floor room and was described as being in good spirits despite his latest ordeal in his two week sojourn at the hospital during which he has see sawed back and forth from death's door as thousands of the faithful pray in St Peter's square to pull through.

 "The pope is not out of danger," one well-placed source said, "the doctors' prognosis still is guarded." 

 Francis' elderly sister was reported to have arrived in Rome from Argentina though the Vatican was not immediately able to confirm that. 

  For a third week running the pope's regular Sunday address was to consist of a text released by the Vatican press office.

  In a Saturday evening medical bulletin doctors were quoted as saying that the condition of the pontiff was stable. During the day he received the Eucharist and spent 20 minutes in the chapel next to his room, the Vatican press room said. The pope spent most of the day in prayer and resting, the statement said. 

 By Saturday evening Francis alternated between using a full oxygen mask and receiving additional oxygen through tubes in his nose.

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