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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.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis brought his message of love and inclusion with both words and gestures.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Six of the refugees are children, and all are Muslims
Pope Francis meets refugees at the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, April 16, 2016. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Francis was joined by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and the Primate of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymous II.
Young refugees wait in line for tea at a makeshift camp April 11 at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece. Pope Francis will travel to Lesbos, Greece, April 16. (CNS photo/Stoyan Nenov, Reuters)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“I got here thanks to Allah,” said Munir, whose son was killed in Syria.
People are seen under tents inside the Moria holding center for refugees and migrants April 15, which Pope Francis was to visit the next day, along with Orthodox leaders, on the Greek island of Lesbos. (CNS photo/Alkis Konstantinidis, Reuters)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
More than half a million refugees have passed through Lesbos over the past year.
Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is on record as saying that the future of the church is in Asia.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’Connell
In his post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the family, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis not only strongly affirms the traditional Christian ideal of marriage; he also opens doors to the progressive integration into the life of the church of those Catholic
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis has appointed the French-born Archbishop Christophe Pierre, one of the Holy See’s most distinguished and respected diplomats.
FaithSynod on the Family
Gerard O’Connell
Cardinal Schönborn: “There is continuity in teaching here, but there is also something really new.”
Synod on the Family
Gerard O’Connell
Integration requires discernment, but the doors are open, even to the sacraments.