VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-10-21
“at an early stage”
Pope Leo XIV · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-21
The Pope announced during his weekly Sunday prayers that doctors had found a nodule on his lung and that it had been caught at an early stage.
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