{"id":495748,"date":"2026-10-14T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495748\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:24:08","slug":"after-pope-leo-cancer-diagnosis-la-archdiocese-asks-for-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495748\/","title":{"rendered":"After Pope Leo cancer diagnosis, LA Archdiocese asks for prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholics from across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are being<a href=\"https:\/\/lacatholics.org\/praying-for-pope-leo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> asked to pray for Pope Leo XIV<\/a>, offering a spiritual bouquet following the pontiff\u2019s cancer diagnosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the archdiocese\u2019s website and social media channels, Catholics were asked to participate in the spiritual bouquet by praying certain devotions, such as the rosary or the Stations of the Cross, spending time in adoration with the Blessed Sacrament, or completing acts of charity or sacrifice for another.<\/p>\n<p>Local parishes and schools were also asked to hold special Masses and novenas for the sick and Pope Leo.<\/p>\n<p>On a special LACatholics.org <a href=\"http:\/\/lacatholics.org\/praying-for-pope-leo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">web page<\/a>, visitors can submit prayer offerings for Pope Leo\u2019s recovery following the Oct. 13 surgery that revealed lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriends, we continue to pray for the Holy Father\u2019s full and swift recovery,\u201d wrote Archbishop Jos\u00e9 H. Gomez <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArchbishopGomez\/status\/2110163304136220947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on social media<\/a>. \u201cI invite you to join me in offering a spiritual bouquet for Pope Leo XIV as he recovers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo, 71, announced after his Oct. 11 Angelus address that doctors had found a small nodule in his lung and that he would have surgery to remove it. After a 90-minute surgery on Oct. 13, doctors <a href=\"https:\/\/angelusnews.com\/news\/vatican\/pope-leo-cancer-found\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">confirmed that lung cancer was detected<\/a> in what was removed.<\/p>\n<p>The pope was expected to stay in Rome\u2019s Gemelli Hospital for a week, and the Vatican canceled all of Leo\u2019s scheduled audiences through Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors are performing more tests before announcing what comes next, including whether or not Leo might need chemotherapy or other treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The archdiocese\u2019s last prayer campaign for the pope\u2019s health was in February 2025, when Pope Francis fell ill. The archdiocese\u2019s Digital Team asked for videos of prayerful support, leading to a flood of submissions that were compiled into a five-minute video titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/angelusnews.com\/local\/la-catholics\/pope-francis-love-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To Pope Francis with Love<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aioseo-author-bio-compact-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/c9d5a933941493d85c4fa9849398943b.jpeg\" alt=\"author avatar\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catholics from across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are being asked to pray for Pope Leo XIV, offering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-495748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}