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
“There is no valid punishment without [offering] hope.”
Dispatches
Pope Francis will address the summit on Friday evening.
Dispatches
Today the pope returned to his role as spiritual retreat master.
Dispatches
Pope Francis met with Hebe de Bonafini, the president of "Madres de la Plaza de Mayo," a human rights organization in Argentina.
Vatican Dispatch
"Peace will be lasting in the measure that we arm our children with the weapons of dialogue.”
Dispatches
This global gathering “is an event of the whole church,” said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
Dispatches
“The meeting is the message,” the pope said as he welcomed Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb.
Dispatches
It all began on Aug. 14, 1549, when St. Francis Xavier arrived and introduced Christianity.
Dispatches
Francis responded to questions relating to the separation of church and state, Islamophobia, pedophilia, synodality and reconciliation with the Lefebvrists.
In All Things
The pope recalled that “our primordial vocation” is to be “children of God.”