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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.

FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“We cannot go about our business quietly at home while Lazarus lies at the door," Pope Francis said.
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
La Repubblica also quotes Francis as saying, “We must knock down the walls that divide."
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Relations between the Holy See and Vietnam are moving ahead in a positive way.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
‘I believe that today there is, in fact, a need for everyone to work to change the world situation, which is a situation of grave wounds, of grave conflict.’
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.