Gemelli Hospital, located in Rome, reported that the surgery intended to remove a lung nodule from Pope Leo XIV was being performed shortly after 6:00 PM local time, which corresponds to one hour earlier in Lisbon.
The Pope had been admitted to the hospital earlier in the afternoon today. This hospitalization occurred two days after he announced that he would undergo an operation due to a nodule that was 'circumscribed to the lung' and which had been identified in a 'very early stage.'
