{"id":62507,"date":"2026-10-11T10:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T10:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/pope-leo-xiv-to-have-surgery-after-lump-found-on-lung\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T10:58:46","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-to-have-surgery-after-lump-found-on-lung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/pope-leo-xiv-to-have-surgery-after-lump-found-on-lung\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV to have surgery after lump found on lung"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Pope Leo XIV has announced he will be operated “in the coming days” after a lump was found on his lung during a medical check up.<\/b><\/p>\n

“The doctors found an early, well-localised nodule on my lung,” he told the public during his weekly Sunday prayers in St Peter’s Square in Rome.<\/p>\n

The 71-year-old pontiff said his medical team “believe it would be right to intervene” and he had agreed to the operation.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo reassured pilgrims that the mass was “well-contained” and caught “at an early stage”.<\/p>\n

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Pope Leo XIV has announced he will be operated “in the coming days” after a lump was found on his lung during a medical check up. “The doctors found an early, well-localised nodule on my lung,” he told the public during his weekly Sunday prayers in St Peter’s Square in Rome. The 71-year-old pontiff said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[14632,2444,4683,1106,1241,17064],"class_list":["post-62507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-leo","tag-lump","tag-lung","tag-pope","tag-surgery","tag-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62509,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62507\/revisions\/62509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}