{
  "id": 13719261,
  "title": "Vatican: Knot in the lung - Pope must undergo surgery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/vatikan-knoten-in-der-lunge-papst-muss-operiert-werden-13719261",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-11T12:37:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/vatikan-knoten-in-der-lunge-papst-muss-operiert-werden/100261346.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Pope Leo XIV, 71, has announced that he will undergo lung surgery due to a lump discovered in the early stages. The operation will take place in the coming days at Rome's Gemelli Clinic, and he is expected to need about a week of recovery. The Pope, whose civil name is Robert Francis Prevost, made the announcement during his Sunday prayer address to tens of thousands of faithful at the Vatican. He has been in office since May last year as the first US-born Pontiff, leading 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide. The surgery may impact his planned longer trip to South America next month.",
  "summary": "Since May of last year, Leo XIV has been leading the Catholic Church. To everyone's surprise, during Sunday's prayer, he announces that he has to undergo surgery.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Handelsblatt",
        "title": "Vatican: \"Lung knot\": Pope must undergo surgery",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/vatikan-knoten-in-der-lunge-papst-muss-operiert-werden",
        "published": "2026-10-11T10:45:58.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}