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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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Greg Burke, an American, and Stefano D’Agostini, an Italian, are early personnel changes in Vatican's reform project.
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The pope struck a very different tone this year, compared to last year when he lambasted 15 “curial diseases.”
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Pope Appoints Msgr. Paul Tighe as Bishop and Adjunct-Secretary to the Pontifical Council for Culture
Pope Francis has nominated the well-known Irish monsignor Paul Tighe as a bishop and has appointed him as Adjunct-Secretary to the Pontifical Council of Culture The Vatican made the announcement on Dec 19 and said the Pope has named him to the titular episcopal See of Drivasto in Albania nbsp M
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Pope Francis has opened the door to the canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta He did so this afternoon Dec 17 when he recognized the miraculous cure of a Brazilian man that took place at the end of 2008 nbsp The news was broken unofficially this evening by the Italian Catholic daily
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“The Catholic Church could do things with political consequences if it coordinated with political leaders.”
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The Holy Year of Mercy arrives in advance in this land that has suffered from war.
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Today the pope opened the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica, inaugurating the Jubilee Year of Mercy.
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The pope's words come as the peace process to end a 45-year-old conflict between the government and separatist rebels seems to have stalled.
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After Pope Francis opens the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 8, the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council, Holy Doors will be opened in all the cathedrals of the world on Dec. 13.
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On the flight from Bangui to Rome, the pope addressed questions on COP21, Vatileaks, Islam