Sergio Alfieri, one of the doctors for Pope Francis, said he is a “fragile” patient given his advanced age and chronic health issues.

As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical but not immediately life-threatening.

“The pope is fine,” Sergio Alfieri, the head surgeon at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where the pope is being treated, said during the news conference at the hospital. “Is the pope out of danger? No, the pope is not out of danger,” he said, but specified Francis is not in a life-threatening situation.

The pope is not a quitter,” the Holy Father’s physician told journalists toward the end of a Friday press conference at Gemelli Hospital in Rome.

Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, is not in danger of death but is not yet cured, one of his doctors, Sergio Alfieri, said on Friday. "Is he out of danger? No. But if the question is 'is he in danger of death',