Cancer Strikes Pope Leo XIV

Amid the multiple news items of recent days is Pope Leo XIV and the removal of the right lower lobe to eliminate (hopefully) an adenocarcinoma of the lung. In pope history, we also find that Pope John Paul II had a large non-cancerous adenoma removed from his colon in July of 1992, and Pope John XXIII died of a stomach cancer in 1963, though this diagnosis was not known to the world until he died.…