Pope meets Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams at the Vatican
The teams are in Rome for the U.S. college basketball season opener — an event dubbed the Eternal City Tip-Off and created to honor the U.S.-born pope.
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The teams are in Rome for the U.S. college basketball season opener — an event dubbed the Eternal City Tip-Off and created to honor the U.S.-born pope.
The Vatican said Pope Leo exercised his right as a U.S. citizen, submitting a mail-in ballot in his native Chicago ahead of the midterm elections next week.
According to the Vatican, doctors gave him the green light for a 12-day tour beginning Friday, Nov. 6. He’ll visit three countries and ten cities, including stops at high altitudes.
Pope Leo XIV will not need any further treatment after having lung cancer surgery, his doctors said in a statement.
Pope Leo XIV is back at the Vatican after his lung cancer diagnosis and surgery last week.
The pontiff was discharged from a hospital in Rome on Saturday morning and has returned to the Vatican.
In an interview posted to Vatican News on social media, his surgeon said the pope "truly put his heart into his treatment" and could be fully recovered in about ten days.
The 71-year-old pope had a portion of his right lung removed and received a diagnosis of lung cancer earlier this week.
The Vatican also released photos of some get-well notes that had been sent to Pope Leo from patients in the hospital's pediatric oncology ward.
The Vatican says Leo is already walking around his hospital room, eating normally, and undergoing respiratory therapy. Blood tests and a chest X-ray show his recovery is progressing.
Chicago students who met with Pope Leo in Rome last year are showing support following his lung cancer diagnosis.
Pope Leo XIV is recovering "as expected" and has begun respiratory physiotherapy after tests confirmed a lung cancer diagnosis following surgery, the Vatican says.
The Vatican did not say what stage of cancer Pope Leo has or if it has spread.
Pope Leo went into surgery on Tuesday, Oct. 13, to remove a nodule that was determined to be a common type of lung cancer.
Pope Leo XIV underwent a successful surgery Tuesday to remove a lung nodule, according to the Vatican.
Pope Leo XIV has arrived at a hospital in Rome to have surgery to remove a small nodule from his lung. Darius Johnson reports from Holy Name Cathedral.
Pope Leo XIV revealed the discovery of a lung nodule during his Sunday noon prayer and said he was following doctors' advice to have it removed.
Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to have surgery to have a nodule in his lung removed, which Northwestern Medicine experts say has put lung health into a needed spotlight.
The American pope has no previously known health problems and is known to be physically active
The Vatican announced this weekend that Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery this week after a nodular lesion was found in his lung, but experts say such a discovery does not necessarily mean cancer.
The Vatican announced this weekend that Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery this week after a nodular lesion was found in his lung, but experts say such a discovery does not necessarily mean cancer. Tara Molina reports.
The firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, will be livestreamed, the U.S. Defense Department said.
Pope Leo XIV sent his blessings to his favorite baseball team, the Chicago White Sox, before their Wild Card series opener Tuesday.
Some 800,000 people lined Paris' iconic Champs-Élysées to attend a mass with the pontiff.
A new Illinois law lets terminally ill patients request a lethal prescription to end their lives, making the state the 13th in the U.S. — and the first in the Midwest — to permit it.
