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Pope to be admitted to hospital today ahead of operation
Pope Leo XIV will be hospitalised at Gemelli Hospital in Rome today ahead of a surgery to remove a nodule in his lung, as Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President Archbishop Timothy Costelloe and people worldwide express their concern and prayers for the pontiff.
Pope’s appeal for ‘tormented’ Ukraine
Before announcing his upcoming surgery during his Angelus on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV appealed for Ukraine, calling for protection for grain shipments in the war-torn country. Source: Crux.
Pope to have surgery to remove lung nodule
Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a nodule from one of his lungs that was recently detected during medical examinations. Source: EWTN News.
Pope to deliver message of peace in Assisi
Pope Leo XIV will return to Assisi on October 27 for the closing day of the 2026 interreligious meeting, four decades after St John Paul II gathered leaders of the world’s religions in the Italian city for a landmark day of prayer for peace. Source: OSV News.
Pope urges frank reckoning with Catholic teaching on sex and marriage
Pope Leo XIV has called on Church leaders to address the “growing distance” between the “ways in which sex and intimacy are lived and the Christian vision of marriage”. Source: NCR Online.
How World Mission Sunday shaped Leo’s vocation
Pope Leo XIV has released a personal video message for the centenary of World Mission Sunday, recalling how the annual celebration helped shape his missionary vocation. Source: Catholic Mission.
Mental health the focus of Pope’s prayer this month
Pope Leo XIV has dedicated his October prayer intention to mental health ministry, calling on the Church to listen without judging and accompany those who suffer without excluding them. Source: Vatican News.
Pope says pastoral visit to France was a ‘great gift’
Pope Leo XIV yesterday said his four-day pastoral visit to France was a “great gift” that could be understood through one central image: the reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Source: EWTN News.
Pope to explore notion of ‘attention’ in clickbait age
Pope Leo XIV will address the risks of today’s “attention economy”, in which media platforms compete for and monetise people’s limited and valuable attention, as the theme for World Communications Day in 2027. Source: OSV News.