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Church in the WorldCardinal has cancer opUnited States Rocco Palmo - 5 August 2006DOCTORS ANNOUNCED earlier this week that Cardinal Francis George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago, had emerged from surgery to remove a cancerous bladder and a portion of his ureter with "the best possible outcome". Alongside his duties as head of the nation's second-largest diocese, Cardinal George is widely viewed as the de facto leader of the American Church, given his post as Vice President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and his close ties to Pope Benedict XVI. After surgery, his personal physician, Dr Myles Sheehan, who is also a Jesuit priest, said: "We do not know absolutely if the cardinal is cured nor can we say definitively that he is cancer-free. What we can say is that the cardinal is a cancer survivor with a good prognosis." |
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