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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.
Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis speaks June 11 during the spring general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in St. Louis. (CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Archbishop Tobin is a man of simple lifestyle, committed to dialogue, encounter and the poor.
 Pope Francis stares at a statue of the Holy Mary as he celebrates the Holy Mass for the Jubilee of inmates, at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“I tell you that every time I enter a prison I ask myself, ‘Why them, not me?’”
Pope Francis salutes at the end of an audience with representatives of the popular movements at the Vatican Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“We must help to heal the world of its moral atrophy,” the pope said at the World Meeting of Popular Movements.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis told journalists, “How I would like a church which is poor and for the poor!”
The ecumenical commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017 can be a time to celebrate that Christians are no longer "on the path of separation, but that of unity," Cardinal Kasper wrote in a new book. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Christian unity requires conversion: "It needs conversion of the papacy, conversion of bishops, conversion of Lutherans and of Catholics."
Pope Francis speaks at the Jesuits' 36th general congregation in Rome Oct. 24. Pope Francis, a Jesuit, met his Jesuit brothers after the election of a new superior but did not participate in the election. (CNS photo/Don Doll, S.J.)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope to address a general congregation.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Sometimes Pope Francis’ actions are even more eloquent than his words.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is greeted by Archbishop Georg Ganswein, prefect of the papal household, prior to an Oct. 24 private meeting between Maduro and Pope Francis at the Vatican (CNS photo/Miraflores Palace handout via EPA).
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
The pope is seeking to get the government and opposition to negotiate a peaceful solution to the present crisis.
Arturo Sosa, S.J., left, the new superior general of the Jesuits, and Orlando Torres, S.J., stand with Pope Francis at a meeting of GC 36 on Oct. 24 (photo courtesy GC 36).
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
The pope spoke about what he considers the most important work Jesuits are called to in the 21st century.
FaithSigns Of the Times
Gerard O’Connell
Jesuits from 62 countries have chosen “a man of deep prayer” in electing Venezuelan-born Arturo Sosa Abascal as the new superior general of their order, said Timothy P. Kesicki, S.J., president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, a few hours after the decision was a