Pope Leo to be admitted to hospital on Tuesday for lung nodule surgery, Vatican says

Doctors found a nodule on the pontiff's lung, he said on Sunday.

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to a hospital in Rome on Tuesday morning, the Vatican said on Monday, a day after the pontiff said he would undergo surgery for a nodule found on his lung.

The operation was to take place in the "next few days," Leo said on Sunday.

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