The 71-year-old leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics had a part of his lung removed on Tuesday and is undergoing further tests to determine if he is cancer-free or needs further treatment.
The head of the 1.4 billion Catholics around the world was removed from the right lung during an intervention on Tuesday. Further examinations are under way to determine whether cancer has spread and if additional treatment is required. Meanwhile, the 71-year-old pontiff, born in Chicago, should stay at least a few more days at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. On Thursday, his doctors indicated that a chest X-ray had shown "a good recovery of the o…