Pope Leo XIV walked the hallways of Rome's Agostino Gemelli University Hospital, resumed his regular meals, and privately celebrated Mass barely 24 hours after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung — yet the lymph node biopsy results that will determine whether his cancer has spread still have not arrived, leaving three Latin American countries and millions of U.S. Catholic faithful in anxious prayer.
The recovery is advancing. The waiting, though, has only just begun.
