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Pope Francis is suffering from pneumonia but is nevertheless in “good spirits”, the Vatican has said.The Holy See has been forced to cancel this weekend’s Holy Year events, the Vatican added, after scans of his chest on Tuesday which revealed the inflammatory condition in both lungs.In a statement, the Vatican said: “The follow-up chest CT scan to which the Holy Father underwent this afternoon... demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia, which required additional drug therapy.”