Pope Leo XIV “spoke by telephone” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, from his hospital room on Oct. 16 and asked him to call for a ceasefire in Oleshky, where the humanitarian situation is dire.
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
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First photos of Pope Leo since surgery released by the Vatican
A new photo of Pope Leo XIV shows him celebrating Mass at the chapel in Rome Gemelli hospital, where he underwent lung cancer surgery on Tuesday.
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Interview: Cardinal Cupich on Pope Leo’s ‘shocking’ cancer diagnosis
Cardinal Cupich thinks that after recovery, the first American pope will have even greater “credibility” among the people because of this experience of fragility.
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Pope Leo has ‘resumed work’ three days after lung cancer surgery
Vatican sources said Pope Leo had received a visit from Archbishop Paolo Rudelli, the chief of staff of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, this afternoon.
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Pope Leo concelebrated Mass in hospital chapel as recovery from lung surgery proceeds ‘as expected’
Pope Leo XIV is making “a normal postoperative recovery” following an operation to remove the lower lobe of his right lung, where doctors had found a malignant tumor.
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Pope Leo diagnosed with lung cancer, Vatican announces
Tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery.
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Pope Leo’s lung surgery concludes ‘positively,’ Vatican says
“The operation has concluded positively, within the time and ways that were envisaged,” and “the Holy Father is now back in his room,” the Vatican said in a brief statement.
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Pope will enter hospital Tuesday for surgery to remove lung nodule
Following the news of the pope’s imminent hospitalization, messages of good wishes and prayers for his health have arrived from church leaders in all parts of the world.
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Pope to undergo surgery to remove ‘small, localized lump’ in lung
According to the Holy See Press Office, the pope’s surgery to remove a lung nodule is scheduled for this week, and the hospital stay is expected to be about one week.
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Pope Leo confirms Cardinal Tagle as Dean of the College of Cardinals
This important office plays a prominent role in papal transitions and conclaves.