Pope Leo XIV recovering after lung cancer operation

Popes in general, the nature of the job is that often they are older people and of course we're very used to seeing this scene at Rome Gemelli Hospital. We remember it's only been 17 months into this new papacy. We remember his predecessor, Pope Francis, having many stays at Rome Gemelli's Hospital and even going as far back as Pope John Paul II at that same hospital. So it will be a memory that people are used to. And one, no one was really expecting. We have a 71-year-old pontiff. He is known to be physically active, not known to have any other medical conditions that you could be concerned about. And so he was also known to play tennis, to swim. So this coming really as a shock, I think, to many. Could this have a dramatic impact on his papacy? Will it affect his agenda. It's less than a month that he will be going. At least it's been planned. It's on the books on a major trip to Latin America, visiting Uruguay, Argentina and Peru from the 6th to the 17th of November. These are packed itineraries for the pontiff. Will he be able to carry it out when he made that public announcement in a very transparent way at the Angelus on Sunday that he did, in fact, have to have this operation. In the earlier remarks, he said he was going and he plans to go. That's still on the books, but one has to see. One can imagine that there will be probably additional tests. And while oncologists and experts believe that because this was detected early, there should be a good prognosis, I think the next couple of days and week, perhaps, that he has this post-operative stay in the hospital are going to be crucial and we'll be waiting to hear more from the Vatican in terms of additional medical bulletins.