{"id":23027,"date":"2026-10-12T14:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=23027"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:05:15","slug":"pope-leo-71-shares-worrying-health-update-ahead-of-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=23027","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo, 71, shares worrying health update ahead of surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pope Leo has shared an update on his health, confirming that he will undergo surgery to have a lung nodule removed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his Sunday noon blessing in Vatican City, the Pope said: \u201cRecently, during some medical examinations, doctors discovered a well-defined lung nodule, detected at a very early stage and clearly localized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe doctors consider it appropriate to intervene, and so, following their advice, I have decided to undergo surgery to have it removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe procedure has already been scheduled for the coming days. I thank you and entrust myself to your prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pope Leo will undergo surgery<br>The Vatican confirmed that the surgery will take place, sharing a statement that read: \u201cThe surgery will be the first days of next week. The post operation recovery will be around one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pope Leo wrapped up his Sunday address by saying he would \u201centrust myself to your prayers,\u201d before wishing everybody a \u201chappy Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been no previously reported health concerns involving the Pope, who is understood to remain physically active in his role as leader of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leo was scheduled to embark on a two-week trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru next month. However, it is not yet known whether his surgery and recovery will affect the planned visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spoke out against the death penalty<br>The health update comes just after Leo recently spoke out against the death penalty. He shared a statement on X, writing: \u201cThe death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo has shared an update on his health, confirming that he will undergo surgery to have a lung nodule removed. During his Sunday noon blessing in Vatican City, the Pope said: \u201cRecently, during some medical examinations, doctors discovered a well-defined lung nodule, detected at a very early stage and clearly localized. \u201cThe doctors consider &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23029,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23027\/revisions\/23029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}