Leo XIV to undergo lung surgery: the Angelus announcement, reactions from bishops and Mattarella, papal precedents
“During some recent medical examinations, the doctors found a small, localized nodule in my lung”. Leo XIV, 71, made the announcement at the end of the greetings after the Angelus on Sunday 11 October in St Peter’s Square. The nodule, the Pope explained, “was detected at a very early stage and is we

