00:00With music and prayer, well-wishers gather outside Rose Gemini Hospital as Pope Leo XIV recovers from surgery to remove
00:09a cancerous lung tumour.
00:12Doctors say the pontiff is walking, eating and making normal progress after the procedure.
00:23Things are going well for the Pope. They caught it in time, and it will be resolved soon. I'm not
00:28worried. I came here to show my support, my spiritual closeness, because I used to come here for Pope Francis
00:34as well.
00:39Catholics are now awaiting the results of a biopsy to determine if the cancer has spread.
00:49The issue is that the tumour was maniglant, but they caught it in time and removed it completely, so there
00:55was no danger.
00:56Even though it is an aggressive type of cancer, treatments are available nowadays, so I don't believe Pope Leo is
01:02in danger.
01:03More or less, it was expected, because this type of tumour at that age is always maniglant. I had imagined
01:09that that might be the case.
01:15The sporty 71-year-old US-born pontiff announced the surgery after Sunday prayers.
