Pope Leo, 71, to undergo emergency surgery in days after ‘early-stage diagnosis’

‘The doctors consider it appropriate to intervene,’ the Pontiff said in his AngelusThe fearless champion of Britain, its voices and its values.Pope Leo XIV has announced he is set to undergo surgery in the coming days after receiving an ‘early-stage diagnosis’.The 71-year-old pontiff told Catholics in his Angelus that his doctors had discovered “a localised nodule” in his lung.