President Donald Trump wished Pope Leo a speedy recovery Wednesday following news that the first American pope had been diagnosed with lung cancer.

The pope briefly addressed his absence in the message, which was issued to recognize a meeting celebrating the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia,” a text published by predecessor Pope Francis in 2016.

The Vatican bureaucracy has been fine-tuned over hundreds of years to function smoothly even when the pope cannot.

On his third day in the hospital, Pope Leo XIV's doctors say his chest X-ray in the morning shows "good recovery of the lung that underwent surgery."

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Louis Prevost​, Pope Leo XIV's older brother who lives in Florida, has multiple myeloma, his wife told CBS News on Tuesday.

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Pope Leo XIV has reminded Pete Hegseth of the Catholic Church’s rejection of the death penalty after the defense secretary bragged he will livestream a terrorist’s execution by firing squad. “The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,