The meeting took place at Vatican's Casa Santa Marta, Italy, where the Pope has been convalescing for more than two weeks after being released from Gemelli Hospital.
According to his medical team at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, the 88-year-old pontiff is no longer in critical condition, having been admitted to the facility with bronchitis on February 14.
On Pope Francis's sixteenth day of treatment at Rome's Gemelli Hospital for pneumonia in both lungs, the Holy Father has not required any 'mechanical ventilation.'