Vatican calls report of Pope Francis brain tumor 'completely baseless'

Sun-Times
October 20, 2015

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On Wednesday, Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi dismissed a report in the Italian newspaper Quotidiano Nazionale that Pope Francis has a small, curable tumor in his brain, calling it “absolutely baseless” and “a complete lie.” In a statement, Lombardi said that “as everyone can see, the pope is always carrying out his intense activity without interruption, in an absolutely normal way.”