Pope Francis spent a peaceful night and is resting, the Vatican said in a short update on Saturday morning, after he suffered a bronchial crisis that caused a sudden worsening of his health.

ROME — Pope Francis was resting Saturday after an alarming setback in his two-week recovery from double pneumonia: Doctors had to put him on noninvasive mechanical ventilation following a coughing fit in which he inhaled vomit that needed to then be extracted.