Academy Award nominee Guy Pearce was struck down by a chest infection and lost his voice at the 2025 Oscars.

Francis, 88, thanked well-wishers ‘from the bottom of my heart’ in an audio recording played during a nightly prayer service.

Francis had inhaled “copious” amounts of mucus in another setback in what has become a more than two-week battle to overcome a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia.

The 88-year-old pontiff was initially admitted to the hospital on Friday for bronchitis. On Monday, the Vatican said test results show Francis has "a polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract." ...