Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi attends a news conference at the Vatican October 21, 2015. The Vatican denied on Wednesday an Italian media report that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumor. The newspaper Quotidiano Nazionale, a national paper based in central Italy, reported on its front page on Wednesday that a Japanese doctor and his team had secretly flown from Tuscany to the Vatican on a helicopter bearing the Vatican's white-and-yellow flag to examine the pope "some months ago". REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi