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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.
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La Repubblica also quotes Francis as saying, “We must knock down the walls that divide."
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Relations between the Holy See and Vietnam are moving ahead in a positive way.
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‘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.’
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Archbishop Tobin is a man of simple lifestyle, committed to dialogue, encounter and the poor.
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“I tell you that every time I enter a prison I ask myself, ‘Why them, not me?’”
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“We must help to heal the world of its moral atrophy,” the pope said at the World Meeting of Popular Movements.
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Pope Francis told journalists, “How I would like a church which is poor and for the poor!”
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Christian unity requires conversion: "It needs conversion of the papacy, conversion of bishops, conversion of Lutherans and of Catholics."
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Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope to address a general congregation.
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Sometimes Pope Francis’ actions are even more eloquent than his words.