Pope Leo Resumes Duties After Lung Cancer Surgery

Pope Leo Resumes Duties After Lung Cancer Surgery

Pope Leo XIV was discharged from Rome's Gemelli Hospital and appeared at St. Peter's Square on Sunday, thanking thousands of faithful for their prayers after surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his right lung. The seventy-one year old pontiff said he will gradually resume his duties leading the world's one point four billion Catholics.

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