🌅 VATICAN REPORT | Special: toward Tuesday 13 October 2026

🏥 The hospitalization: what is official Tomorrow Leo XIV enters Policlinico Gemelli for the surgery to remove the lung nodule announced at Sunday’s Angelus. The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, specified that admission is scheduled “late in the morning.” According to the Press Office, the nodule emerged from “routine” checks. The estimate of a post-operative hospital stay of “about one week” remains valid. The day and time of the surgery have not been communicated. 📅 Suspended agenda In the evening the Prefecture of the Papal Household issued a statement: “Due to the hospitalization of the Holy Father, all audiences are cancelled until Tuesday 20 October.” ⛪ Amoris laetitia: the Mass with Tagle and the unpublished report The concluding Mass of the meeting for the tenth anniversary of Amoris laetitia, Wednesday 14 at 10 a.m. on the sagrato of St. Peter’s, is “entrusted by the Holy Father to Cardinal Tagle,” Dean of the College of Cardinals. The Office for Liturgical Celebrations confirmed it with a statement. The Pope has asked that the synthesis report not be published: according to Fr. Giacomo Costa, he wishes to receive it and, “once discharged from hospital,” to be able to “say a word of his own.” Card. Mario Grech added that “a concluding address from him is not to be expected.” 🕰️ Timeline for Tuesday 13 October • Late morning: admission to Gemelli. ✅ Confirmed (Press Office) • 9:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m.: conference on John Paul I at the Pontifical Gregorian University. ✅ Confirmed on the program • 5:00 p.m.: Villanova University ceremony at Castel Gandolfo with Card. Czerny. ⚠️ With the hospitalization the Pope will not be able to attend, but there is no official cancellation note. • 6:00 p.m.: Rosary for the Pope led by Card. Reina in the St. John Paul II Chapel at Gemelli. ✅ Confirmed (Diocese of Rome, SIR). Rome’s parishes will pray at the same time; live on Tv2000. • Afternoon, around 4 p.m., or Wednesday morning: surgery. ❌ Not confirmed (ANSA, “according to some sources”). 🔎 What is not official According to ANSA, the surgical team would be led by Professors Stefano Margaritora and Luigi Carbone, but the news has not been confirmed. Gemelli and the Press Office maintain silence. On the Angelus of 18 October, ANSA writes, “we will see day by day.” The trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru (6–17 November) has not undergone any official changes. 📌 What to watch • The official communication on the time of the surgery. • The format of the medical bulletins: signed by the doctors or issued by the Press Office. • Any official note on the Villanova ceremony. • Decisions on the Angelus of 18 October and the General Audience of the 21st.