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Pope Leo XIV leads Angelus prayer after discharge from hospital
Papal Health Update
Pope Leo XIV was discharged from Gemelli hospital after undergoing surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung due to pulmonary adenocarcinoma.
Pope Leo XIV was discharged from Gemelli hospital after undergoing surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung due to pulmonary adenocarcinoma.
Pontiff’s Recovery
Pope Leo XIV’s satisfactory clinical condition following lung surgery facilitates his upcoming travel to Latin America, underscoring the operational resilience of the papal schedule.
Pope Leo XIV’s satisfactory clinical condition following lung surgery facilitates his upcoming travel to Latin America, underscoring the operational resilience of the papal schedule.
Papal Gratitude
“I want to thank all those who have prayed for me in these days. I really felt your support, thank you!” said Pope Leo XIV.
“I want to thank all those who have prayed for me in these days. I really felt your support, thank you!” said Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo XIV after his hospital stay: “I feel closer to those who suffer illness”
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Met with warm applause from the crowd of faithful who had gathered in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday morning, Pope Leo XIV appeared punctually at noon at the window of the Apostolic Palace to lead the Angelus prayer.
Leo XIV was discharged on Saturday from Rome’s Gemelli hospital after a five‑day stay following the removal of the lower lobe of his right lung, due to the presence of a pulmonary adenocarcinoma.
“I want to thank all those who have prayed for me in these days. I really felt your support, thank you!” the Pontiff said. “I am particularly grateful to the doctors, nurses and all the staff of the Gemelli Polyclinic,” the Pope continued, before describing how he experienced his time in hospital: “It made me feel in a special way close to all those who are going through illness and a condition of infirmity.”
Leo XVI then said that in “this delicate phase” he will gradually resume his activities. The Pontiff is expected to travel to Latin America in the coming weeks.
How is Pope Leo? Professor Margaritora: “An ideal patient”
Professor Stefano Margaritora, the surgeon who operated on Leo XIV’s lung on Tuesday 13 October, spoke about the upcoming apostolic journey. In an interview with Vatican media he explained that there are no clinical reasons why this trip should not take place.
According to Margaritoria, at the time he was discharged from hospital the Pope was in “satisfactory” clinical condition. “The re‑expansion of the lung after the operation is progressing according to the time frame normally expected. Overall, therefore, his condition is good,” the professor added.
He also said the discovery of the malignant tumour was accidental. “As unfortunately often happens, while carrying out routine abdominal tests, this small spot was found in the chest, at the base of the lungs. This is fairly common, because when radiological examinations of the abdomen are done, since the diaphragm is a kind of parachute, the lung bases are normally visible. But certainly, if this small spot had been a little higher, it would not have been seen,” Margaritoria added.
The professor said he was satisfied with the operation and recounted how, in his post‑operative recovery, the Pope put “heart and soul” into it. “His determination to recover within a very short time is extremely effective from every point of view: it has truly been exemplary,” he added.
“Pope Leo was an ideal patient. I don’t say that to flatter him, but he really was a patient who did not cause the slightest problem for the team looking after him,” he also said.
Margaritoria then said that convalescence will take a couple of weeks and, for this reason, he believes the Pope’s trip to Latin America, scheduled to start on 6 November, can go ahead. “I would say there are no clinical reasons why this journey should not take place,” the professor said.
October 12, 2024
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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