‘A bolt from the blue’: Shock cancer diagnosis raises uncertainty for Leo’s papacy

Thousands of people congregated in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday for a Mass that Pope Leo should have been presiding over. Instead, another senior Catholic Church official took his place, while the first American pope recovered in a hospital after being diagnosed with lung cancer following an operation to remove a lobe of his right lung.

Thousands of people congregated in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday for a Mass that Pope Leo should have been presiding over. Instead, another senior Catholic Church official took his place, while the first American pope recovered in a hospital after being diagnosed with lung cancer following an operation to remove a lobe of his right lung.  Read More