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Fra' Giacomo Dalla Torre is seen smiling alongside Pope Francis in a 2017 file photo at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Alberto Pizzoli, pool via Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Fra’ Giacomo led the 1,000-year-old sovereign order following an institutional crisis that caused deep internal fractures and a confrontation with the Holy See.
Pope Francis meets Marc, a street paper vendor from Utrecht, Netherlands, at the Vatican in October 2015. Marc conducted an exclusive interview with the pope for all street papers, through the news service of the International Network of Street Papers. INSP supports 113 street papers across the world, who offer employment to 13,000 homeless and marginalized people in 34 countries. (CNS photo/courtesy of Frank Dries, Straatnieuws) 
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The pope again expressed his deep, personal concern for the homeless and other poor people and reaffirmed his spiritual “closeness” to them.
Pope Francis exchanges gifts with French President Emmanuel Macron during a private audience at the Vatican in June 2018. (CNS photo/ Alessandra Tarantino, pool via Reuters)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis expressed his closeness and support to France, where Covid-19 has claimed more than 20,000 lives.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis warned against “the risk” of “being struck by an even worse virus” than Covid-19, namely “selfish indifference.”
In an editorial published April 17, 2020, by the Spanish magazine Vida Nueva, Pope Francis said Christians are called to be joyful witnesses to Christ's victory over death during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS file photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis says our experience today mirrors in many ways that of the disciples of Jesus after his death and burial in the tomb. Like them, “we live surrounded by an atmosphere of pain and uncertainty,” and we ask, “Who will roll away the stone [from the tomb?]”
Father Augusto Zampini is pictured in Rome in August 2017. (CNS photo/Cindy Wooden)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In this exclusive interview with America, Father Zampini said, “The future starts today, and we should be conscious that the decisions that are being taken by governments and world leaders in these months will shape the future of our world.”