Crowds welcome Pope Leo XIV back to Vatican after his surgery
Crowds packed St. Peter's Square Sunday to hear Pope Leo XIV speak publicly for the first time since he had surgery to treat lung cancer.
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Crowds packed St. Peter's Square Sunday to hear Pope Leo XIV speak publicly for the first time since he had surgery to treat lung cancer.
Pope Leo XIV was released from the hospital after having surgery for lung cancer and is recovering at the Vatican.
Pope Leo XIV has resumed some work, the Vatican said Thursday, after he had a piece of his right lung removed and received a diagnosis of lung cancer.
Pope Leo XIV has resumed some work, the Vatican said Thursday, after he had a piece of his right lung removed and received a diagnosis of lung cancer.
Pope Leo XIV is recovering well from surgery to remove part of his lung amid a lung cancer diagnosis, according to the Vatican. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl talked to doctors in the Philadelphia area about the importance of testing and early detection for lung cancer.
The U.S.-born pontiff, who is a Villanova alumnus, will be admitted to the hospital Tuesday, days after he shared that he would undergo surgery, the Vatican announced.
Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery this week after a nodular lesion was found in his lung, the Vatican said. Recovery is expected to take a week.
During a trip to Rome, Dr. Nicholas DePace had a once-in-a-lifetime experience and brought Pope Leo XIV gifts.
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Villanova University alumnus Cardinal Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV, was elected as the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and succeeds Pope Francis.
Robert Prevost graduated from Villanova University in 1977 with a degree in mathematics. The school's current president, Peter Donohue, was a classmate of Prevost. Donahue said he was surprised when the new pope was revealed, but knows that his classmate was always proud of his relationship with the school.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1955, Pope Leo XIV graduated from Villanova with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1977.
Pope Leo XIV worked at St. Denis Parish in Havertown while he was studying at Villanova University in the 1970s.
Social media was buzzing with Philadelphia pride after Leo XIV, a Villanova alumnus, was elected pope.
Pope Leo XIV is the first pope born in the United States and the first Augustinian friar to be elected pontiff.
While cardinals were electing Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City, a group of Philadelphia students were selecting a pontiff of their own.
On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope, Leo XIV.
While Pope Leo XIV was being introduced to the world as the next pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, students at St. Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia were selecting a pope of their own in a mock classroom conclave.
The cardinal electors of the Catholic Church elected an American on Thursday to serve as the new pope.
Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Villanova University graduate, has been chosen as the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and the first pope born in the United States. Prevost chose Leo XIV as his papal name. CBS News Philadelphia has live reaction from around the region.
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