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
Pope Francis brought his message of love and inclusion with both words and gestures.
Dispatches
Six of the refugees are children, and all are Muslims
Dispatches
Francis was joined by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and the Primate of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymous II.
Dispatches
“I got here thanks to Allah,” said Munir, whose son was killed in Syria.
Dispatches
More than half a million refugees have passed through Lesbos over the past year.
Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis is on record as saying that the future of the church is in Asia.
Signs Of the Times
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
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
Cardinal Schönborn: “There is continuity in teaching here, but there is also something really new.”
Synod on the Family
Integration requires discernment, but the doors are open, even to the sacraments.