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Pope Leo XIV announced today in St. Peter’s Square that he will undergo surgery to remove a ‘localised nodule’ in his lung, detected during recent medical tests. The surgery is scheduled to take place this week at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, with a recovery period of approximately one week.
Pope Leo is scheduled to have surgery later this week at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital to remove a localized nodule in his lung. Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni indicated that the recovery period is expected to last approximately one week following the operation.
Pope Leo announced today that he will undergo surgery this week to remove a “localised nodule” from his lung, a decision made following medical advice. Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni confirmed the operation will take place at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, with an expected recovery period of approximately one week.
What remains unclear — It is not specified when Pope Leo will be discharged from the hospital following his surgery.
Pope Leo to have surgery this week to remove lung nodule
Pope Leo made the announcement in St Peter’s Square today (Picture: AP)
Pope Leo announced today that he will undergo surgery to remove a ‘localised nodule’ in his lung.
During Sunday prayers in St. Peter’s Square today, he told onlookers: ‘Recently, during some medical tests, doctors discovered a localised nodule in my lung.
‘It was detected at a very early stage and is well localised. The doctors believe it is best to intervene, so, following their advice, I have decided to undergo surgery to have it removed.’
It’s understood that the pontiff will have the surgery this week, and he told the crowd he ‘entrusts himself’ to their prayers.
Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni confirmed the operation will take place this week and it will take roughly a week for Pope Leo to recover.
Pope Leo will undergo surgery this week (Picture: Getty)
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Robert Francis Prevost, 71, was named the first American to serve as Pope in 2025.
The Pope was born in Chicago and was made cardinal by Francis in 2023.
This past week, Pope Leo declared capital punishment ‘inadmissible’ following plans for the United States to livestream an execution by firing squad.
In a post on X, the pontiff said the death penalty ‘attacks the inherent dignity of a human being’.
He wrote: ‘The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment.
‘Effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.’
The US Defence Department announced Thursday its intention to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who was convicted in 2009 of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a shooting spree at Fort Hood military base.
Leo didn’t refer specifically to the planned execution or the botched killing in Tennessee of Christa Pike, which saw the killer survive two attempted lethal injections. However, his post came just hours after his top deputy, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said explicitly that the planned US public execution was ‘unacceptable’.
Pope Francis previously declared capital punishment ‘inadmissible’.
Meanwhile, the head of the US bishops conference, Archbishop Paul Coakley, expressed ‘shock’ and ‘great sorrow’ at the Pentagon’s plans.
‘In no way can Hasan’s actions be condoned, but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered,’ he said in a statement Friday.
‘The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.’
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘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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