Voices
Gerard O’Connell is America’s Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
Dispatches
The sorrow and pain is great. The stories of heroic deeds of rescuers and ordinary people are great, too.
Dispatches
The quake left at least 120 people dead, including many children, and obliterated mountain villages.
Dispatches
The pope is expected to reaffirm the vital contribution that different religions can make to peace in the 21st century.
Dispatches
After years of frosty relations between France and the Holy See, François Hollande speaks from his heart to a pope who much prefers this attitude
Dispatches
Bishop Kevin Farrell is known as a pastor “with the smell of the sheep.”
Vatican Dispatch
In choosing new cardinals, Francis has been guided by five criteria.
Dispatches
“How truly difficult it is for us to pardon those who have done us wrong!”
Signs Of the Times
Pope Francis bade farewell on July 31 to an estimated 1.6 million young people from 187 countries in Krakow, Poland, for World Youth Day. In his homily at the festival Mass, he challenged them “to have the courage to be more powerful than evil by loving everyone, even our enemies.”Franci
Dispatches
Cardinal Tong seeks to respond to those who wonder whether an agreement between the Holy See and Beijing “may be going against the principles of the church.”
FaithDispatches
The commission includes six women among its twelve members, including Phyllis Zagano, who has written widely on the subject of women deacons.