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Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, as they arrive for a meeting in the synod hall at the Vatican in this Feb. 13, 2015, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Simcha Fisher
Righteous call-outs should be patterned after Cardinal O’Malley’s rebuke of Pope Francis on sex abuse.
Chilean clerical sex abuse survivors Juan Carlos Cruz and James Hamilton attend a news conference at the Foreign Press Association building in Rome May 2. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“I saw someone who was caring for someone, not worrying about if we are gay, straight, brown, white.”
Pope Francis walks past cardinals as he leaves a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 28, 2017. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is trying to ensure that those who elect his successor are humble men committed to “a church of the poor and for the poor.”
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The Vatican declined to confirm or deny the remarks in keeping with its policy not to comment on the pope's private conversations.
 Pope Francis arrives in procession to celebrate Mass marking the feast of Pentecost in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 20. The pope at his "Regina Coeli" announced that he will create 14 new cardinals June 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Eleven of the new cardinals are under the age of 80 and so have the right to vote in the next conclave.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Both men were close to each other in life, and both are much revered by Pope Francis.