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Pope Leo says he will undergo surgery for small growth on lung

Pope Leo says he will undergo surgery for small growth on lung
France 24 Sunday 11 October 2026, 15:17 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Pope Leo says he will undergo surgery for small growth on lung Issued on: Share Pope Leo said on Sunday that doctors had detected a small growth on his lung during a recent health check and he would be undergoing surgery this week to remove it, in the first health scare of the 71-year-old pontiff's tenure. We discuss that with our correspondent Seema Gupta.
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