Today the Pope was hospitalized at Gemelli to remove a nodule in his lung

The Pope will be hospitalized this morning at Gemelli in Rome to remove a nodule in his lung, discovered during a routine check-up. All hearings are canceled until October 20th

08:28 - Card. Kikuchi, 'the Pope told me that the illness is not serious'

"This morning at 9:30, I was granted a meeting with the Holy Father. Before the meeting with us at Caritas, I had a private conversation with the Holy Father. Although he assured me that the surgery is minor and that he doesn't feel anything bad in his body, he said that he decided to undergo the surgery as soon as possible so as not to change his plan for the visit to Latin America." The Cardinal Archbishop of Tokyo wrote this late yesterday evening in a post on his social media profiles

00:20 - Pope Leo XIV received the Nicaraguan bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez in the Vatican

Pope Leo The hearing is among the Pontiff's last public commitments before the operation scheduled for tomorrow. The Holy See confirmed the meeting in the official bulletin, without specifying the topics addressed.