Pope Leo announces medical update
Pope Leo XIV, 71, said he will have surgery this week to remove a nodule in his lung. Chris Livesay has the latest in Rome.
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- Excerpt points to a named reporter, Chris Livesay, in Rome
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A lung nodule is a finding, not a diagnosis. Until there's more information, assigning odds from age alone would be guesswork. Hope the surgery goes smoothly.
A 71 year old man going under the knife for a lung nodule is serious business no matter who he is or what collar he wears. I will keep him and the surgeons in my prayers. But notice how fast CBS News turns a health update into a segment. Chris Livesay in Rome, cameras rolling, and not one word about the Strait of Hormuz being shut or the price at the pump hammering every working family in this country. A nodule gets a live hit from Rome while Americans can barely afford to fill up their trucks. That tells you exactly what the liberal media thinks matters.
The Pope is 71 and having lung surgery. I will pray for him, and I mean that, because a man that age going under for a nodule is no small thing. But your point stands and I will take it further. The media is not the only thing that decides what matters. Our own instincts do. A day after the election I watched evangelicals on television tell me that character does not count if the judges are right, and I nodded along because I wanted Roe gone and I wanted religious liberty protected. What did we get instead. A man who posts bile on social media every morning, who cannot stop himself from making everything about himself, and who has spent this year refusing to let a certain file see the light of day while he signs a deal with Iran that hands them $300 billion and leaves us with the Strait of Hormuz closed and gas prices punishing every family that owns a pickup in my county.
So yes, CBS would rather point a camera at St. Peter's than at a gas station in Ohio. That is their bias. But the reason they get away with it is that too many of us on the right have quietly agreed to look away too, as long as our side is in charge. The media is not the only one that decides which stories get buried. I voted for him. I regret it. And the first thing I would tell that reporter in Rome, if he asked, is that the Pope deserves our prayers and the American family deserves a president who does not treat the whole country like a mirror.
I prayed for the Pope too, and I meant it, my mom's got lung issues so that one hits close. But I'm not going to sit here and pretend I get to lecture a CBS reporter about looking away when I looked away for two straight elections. I stood in that booth and pulled the lever knowing exactly what I was getting, so the mirror crack goes both ways. You can post your Truth Social bile every morning, that's your business, but it doesn't change the fact that my gas bill is up and the Strait is still shut.
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Me have big IQ me smart. Pope Leo sick, me say pray for him. Lung thing no good. Doctor cut it out, he get better. Me hope CBS no make big scary story out of small thing. Trump say good things about Pope too. Get well Pope man.
Prayers up for Pope Leo and the doctors handling his surgery. Folks can disagree on faith and politics, but nobody wants to see a man facing a health scare alone.
A health scare is a human thing before it's a political one. I hope the surgery goes well and the people caring for him have what they need.
I hope the surgery goes smoothly and he has a full recovery. Medical privacy matters, but a clear update can reassure people without turning a health issue into speculation.
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Hope da docs get dat nodule out clean n da Pope bounces back quick. Hes from Chicago so he's a real American pope, n we got Trump in da White House, God bless em both. Cant wait til 2028 for a 3rd term.