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Pope returns to Vatican for Angelus following cancer surgery

One week after Pope Leo XIV revealed to the world that he would be undergoing lung surgery, the pope returned to the window of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace Oct. 18, thanking Catholics worldwide for their prayers.

• Pope Leo XIV’s surgery reveals lung cancer

  

  By COURTNEY MARES, OSV News
  Published October 14, 2026

  Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung cancer following a 90-minute surgery on Oct. 13 during which surgeons removed the lower lobe of the pope’s right lung.

• Pope Leo XIV to undergo surgery to remove lung nodule

  

  By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, OSV News
  Published October 11, 2026

  Pope Leo XIV announced that he will undergo surgery after doctors discovered a nodule, or lump, in his lungs. He made the announcement while speaking to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 11, during his Sunday Angelus address.

• Faithful cannot accept oppression, injustice, pope says

  

  By JOSEPHINE PETERSON, Catholic News Service
  Published October 7, 2026

  By worshipping Christ, “the Righteous One who died for the unrighteous,” the faithful are called to work for justice, peace and fraternity, the pope said Oct. 7 in St. Peter’s Square.