Originally published at The Crux
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On Tuesday morning, Pope Leo XIV will be admitted into Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where he will have surgery to remove a nodular lesion on his lung.
The Director of the Holy See Press Officer — Matteo Bruni — confirmed to journalists that Leo will go into hospital “late in the morning” on Tuesday.
Bruni also said that Leo’s hospital stay is likely to last approximately one week.
During Sunday’s Angelus, Leo said doctors had found a “small, localized nodule” on his lung.
Leo attended all his meetings Monday morning, but was not able to make the afternoon session of the conference marking the tenth anniversary of the publication of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Amoris laetitia.
Speaking at a briefing at the Holy See Press Office, Father Giacomo Costa explained that, as a result, several changes would be made to how the conference would take place, which finishes on Wednesday.
Costa, who is a consultor to the General Secretariat of the Synod and involved in the organization of the conference, said that Wednesday’s scheduled mass would now be said by Cardinal Antonio Tagle, new Dean of the College of Cardinals, instead of Leo.
“During the Mass, we will pray especially for
