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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.
Pope Francis blesses a woman as he meets the disabled during the opening of the Diocese of Rome's annual pastoral conference at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome June 16. (CNS photo/Tony Gentile, Reuters)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Did the pope say a majority of marriages are null?
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Bishop Ma's sudden decision to recant has sent "shockwaves" through China’s community of some 12 million Catholics.
Pope Francis speaks as he visits the headquarters of the World Food Programme in Rome June 13. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
At the annual meeting of the World Food Program, the pope said we need to “de-naturalize” extreme poverty.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Victor Soldano has been on death row in Texas since 1996 when he was first convicted for murder.
Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“This is the time to move out from the era of analysis and to begin concrete actions.”
 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and Pope Francis meet children at the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, April 16, 2016. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Churches in Antioch and Bulgaria announced they would not participate unless certain questions are resolved beforehand.
Pope Francis, with Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo at right, signs a declaration during a two-day Vatican summit of judges and magistrates against human trafficking and organized crime. The summit began on June 3. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
News
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis and criminal-justice officials declare prostitution, forced labor and organ trafficking as “Crimes against Humanity.”
News
Gerard O’Connell
The decree makes it possible to remove diocesan bishops for neglecting to protect children and vulnerable adults from sexual abuse.
Judging Wising. Pope Francis addresses Vatican summit on combating human trafficking. Photo courtesy of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“There is no valid punishment without [offering] hope.”
Students from the Archdiocese of Calcutta take part in a walk for peace against human trafficking in early February in Kolkatta, India. (CNS photo/Piyal Adhikary, EPA)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis will address the summit on Friday evening.