Explained: Pope ‘proud to be an American’ after US elections, and credits God and doctors with cancer rebound

Pope Leo XIV said he was proud to be an American and to exercise his right to vote in U.S. midterm elections

Adenocarcinoma

The most common type of lung cancer, as confirmed by Leo's doctors

Holy See

The foreign government/country that the Pope heads as its leader

Mail-in ballot

An absentee voting method Leo used to vote in Chicago