Pope Francis awake after kidney failure diagnosis, outlook still touch-and-go - Cardinal says 88-year-old pontiff is ‘probably close to death’

ROME -- Pope Francis was resting Monday morning after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospitalization for a complex lung infection that has provoked the early stages of kidney failure, the Vatican said. The one-line statement didn’t say if Francis, 88, had woken up. “The night passed well, the pope slept and is resting,” it said.