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Pope Leo has been weighing a major decision as he recovers from lung cancer surgery. But in the end, he had little choice but to press on with a visit to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru just 24 days after having part of one lung removed. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo will not need any further therapy after undergoing lung cancer surgery last week, ​his doctors said on Wednesday, indicating that his ‌tumor had not spread. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo returned to St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, waving ‌to pilgrims and blessing babies from his open-air popemobile as he held his first general audience at the Vatican since undergoing lung cancer surgery eight days ago. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo will hold a general audience with pilgrims at the Vatican on Wednesday ​for the first time since undergoing surgery for lung cancer, ‌the Vatican said. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo pledged on Sunday ​to slowly resume his usual activities as the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics as he ‌greeted crowds in St. Peter's Square during his first public event since undergoing surgery for lung cancer five days ago. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo left hospital in Rome on Saturday afternoon and returned to the Vatican four days after ‌surgery for lung cancer, an illness that has prompted speculation about how it might affect his 17-month papacy. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo is expected to ‌leave hospital on Saturday afternoon following surgery for lung cancer, the Vatican said, after blood tests and chest imaging found him fit to return home four days after his operation. For @reuters.com

When Pope Leo emerged as the new leader of the Catholic Church last year, ​his youth and energy struck a contrast from his predecessor Francis. Now the world's 1.4 billion Catholics are again unexpectedly facing the reality of a sick pope. For @reuters.com

Catholics serving in the US Army should ​not participate in the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan that the Pentagon is planning ‌to livestream in December, a prominent US archbishop said on Monday. For @reuters.com

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. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo approved Filipino Cardinal Luis Tagle's election as the dean of the Catholic ​Church's college of cardinals, the Vatican said on Friday, ‌in the first selection of an Asian cleric to lead the elite group that one day will choose Leo's successor. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo urged an assembly of some 150 bishops from ‌around the world to find "renewed ways" of helping modern families at the start of a week-long meeting at the Vatican, his biggest gathering of Church leaders so far. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo on Monday defended his decision to vocally oppose ​assisted dying initiatives while in France, acknowledging he may ‌have entered the political fray, but wanted to share ​the Catholic Church's viewpoint. @reuters.com

Pope Leo on Monday urged Russia and Ukraine to sit down and discuss ​how to end their four-year war, hours after ‌he had urged European leaders seeking to end conflicts to make concessions to achieve peace. @reuters.com

Pope Leo on Monday said concerns that artificial intelligence could destroy the ​world are not "fake news" and should be taken seriously, in an apparent ‌rebuke of US President Donald Trump. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo on Sunday urged the Catholic Church to admit its own ​failings and heal "deep wounds" inflicted within its ranks, hours before he was set to meet victims of child abuse by priests in France. For @reuters.com

Crowds stretched the length of ​the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Saturday, as Pope Leo urged Catholics to find happiness in faith, not material things, at the ‌biggest event of his visit to France, an outdoor Mass with an estimated 700,000 people. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo's beloved Chicago White Sox may have pulled off ​a miracle, making Major League Baseball's playoffs ‌for the first time since 2021. But the longtime fan of the South Siders won't reveal if he ​called on a little help from on ​high. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo said ​on Friday that the United Nations and other multilateral groups were in crisis, warning in a speech at the Paris headquarters of UNESCO that international dialogue risked becoming a "charade". For @reuters.com

Asked about U.S. President Donald ​Trump's decision to bar CNN ‌and several other outlets from the White House, Pope Leo on Friday reaffirmed ​his support for freedom of ​the press. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/med...

The Vatican warned about the risk of an apocalypse spurred by artificial ​intelligence years before major US firms sounded the alarm at the UN Security Council on Wednesday - a concern that Pope Leo is placing at ‌the heart of his papacy. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo lamented on Wednesday conditions suffered by migrant ​and refugee children and urged global ‌action to protect young people fleeing their home countries in search of safety. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo heads to France on Friday for the first formal visit by a pope in nearly 20 ​years, which Catholic leaders hope will repair the Church's standing after a crushing 2021 report on child abuse by priests sparked nationwide shock. For @reuters.com

A senior Vatican official urged an end to the Ukraine war after meeting in Moscow on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister ​Sergey Lavrov in the first in-person talks between ​Vatican and Russian officials in five years. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. ​independence on Saturday with an appeal to Americans to welcome and protect immigrants, in a letter sent to his home country as he visited ‌Italy's migrant frontline island of Lampedusa. @reuters.com

Pope Leo ​praised the United States' history of welcoming ‌immigrants in his first major address to his home country on Friday, urging in a video ​appearance that Americans live up to the ​ideals of the Declaration of ⁠Independence. For @reuters.com

The Vatican's decision on Thursday to tell the members of a breakaway ‌traditionalist Catholic group that they were excommunicated showed that Pope Leo is also not afraid of making firm doctrinal decisions, experts said. For @reuters.com

The Vatican on Tuesday reaffirmed a long-standing rule that only an ordained priest or ​deacon can give a sermon at a Catholic mass, ‌rejecting a request from German bishops to broaden the practice and allow sermons by women or other laypeople. For @reuters.com

World leaders are "feeding" wars instead of the hungry, Pope Leo ‌said on Monday, telling the U.N. food aid agency that global priorities were badly skewed. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo on Tuesday praised the interim ​deal between the United States ‌and Iran to end the regional war in the Middle East, saying "thanks ​be to God" that ​the two powers are set to ⁠formalize their accord on Friday. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo boarded a Falcon jet offered by ​the King of Spain after a technical issue ‌grounded the larger papal plane on the island of Tenerife, delaying his return to the Vatican on Friday at ​the end of a week-long tour of ​Spain. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo on Friday issued a stern warning to human traffickers and criminal groups who exploit desperate migrants ​trying to reach Europe through Spain's Canary Islands, telling them to "repent" before God or face being sent to hell. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo appealed to world leaders ​on Thursday to treat migrants more humanely, warning in a visit to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's migration hotspots, that history would condemn those ‌who allowed people fleeing war or poverty to suffer. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo, who has forcefully advocated for the rights of prisoners, visited one of Spain's largest prisons on Wednesday, urging the ​inmates to make amends for their crimes and commit to living ‌better lives. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo had a brief private meeting with Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny at Madrid's ​Bernabeu stadium on Monday evening as both were ‌touring Spain, the Vatican said on Tuesday, adding that it did not expect to release any photos of the meeting. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo's visit to Spain's Canary Islands, which have struggled to absorb a surge in irregular migration ​over the past decade, will focus attention on the treatment of migrants, local Catholic leaders said.

Pope Leo set off on Tuesday for the ‌second stop of his visit to Spain, flying from Madrid to Barcelona as part of a week-long tour in which he has warned that escalating conflicts have pushed the world into a profound crisis. For @reuters.com

Pope ​Leo told Spain's Catholic bishops on Monday they ‌must listen to survivors of abuse by clergy and offer them reparations, in the first direct reference during his trip to ​scandals that have shaken the local Church's credibility. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo told Spain's parliament that escalating conflict, deepening polarization and widespread disregard for human ​rights had pushed the world into a profound crisis, in one of his most expansive political addresses yet on Monday. For @reuters.com

Over a million people filled the streets near one of ​Madrid's main squares on Sunday to join Pope Leo for an outdoor Mass, ‌likely to be the largest event of his week-long visit to Spain, where the pope said God stands with society's poor and forsaken. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo may have traded his life in Chicago for the ornate ​apartments at the Vatican's apostolic palace, but he ‌still plans to root for his old national team at the World Cup this month. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo on Saturday urged global leaders to avoid dividing their ​electorates with "sterile simplifications" to gain popularity and called on them to listen to the world's cries for peace, in a forceful speech opening ‌a week-long tour of Spain. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo will meet with survivors ​of sexual abuse by Catholic ‌clergy during his week-long visit to Spain, the Vatican said ​on Friday. For @reuters.com

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Pope Leo heads to Spain on Saturday for a week-long tour, his first visit to an EU country outside Italy, which will ​culminate with the pontiff meeting migrants in the Canary Islands who braved dangerous Atlantic waters to enter Europe. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo named an executive with U.S. Catholic media conglomerate EWTN ​as the new head of the ‌Vatican's communications department on Tuesday, in the first appointment of a woman to the senior Church role. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo this week repudiated a major teaching used by the Catholic Church since at ​least the fifth century to evaluate when countries might be justified in waging wars, in a move experts said could have long-reaching impact ‌for global powers. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo on Wednesday ​decried what he called ‌a "sharp intensification" of the war in Ukraine, telling ​pilgrims at his weekly ​audience at the Vatican ⁠that he wanted ​to express closeness to civilians ​killed in recent attacks. For @reuters.com

Catholic popes have been urging global leaders to address social justice issues for 135 ​years. Leo XIV has now added his name to the pantheon, issuing a fervent manifesto on Monday titled "Magnifica Humanitas" (Magnificent Humanity). For @reuters.com

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