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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
Greg Burke, an American, and Stefano D’Agostini, an Italian, are early personnel changes in Vatican's reform project.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
The pope struck a very different tone this year, compared to last year when he lambasted 15 “curial diseases.”
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
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
Crowds await the arrival of Pope Francis for his Mass in Mother Teresa Square in Tirana, Albania, Sept. 21. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
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
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“The Catholic Church could do things with political consequences if it coordinated with political leaders.”
Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Holy Year of Mercy arrives in advance in this land that has suffered from war.
Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica to inaugurate the Jubilee Year of Mercy at the Vatican Dec. 8. (CNS photo/Maurizio Brambatti, EPA)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Today the pope opened the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica, inaugurating the Jubilee Year of Mercy.
Pope Francis greets Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Manila Jan. 16. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
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.
Pope Francis opens the Holy Door as he begins the Holy Year of Mercy at the start of a Mass with priests, religious, catechists and youths at the cathedral in Bangui, Central African Republic, Nov. 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
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.
Pope Francis answers questions from journalists aboard his flight from Bangui, Central African Republic, to Rome Nov. 30 (CNS photo/Paul Haring).
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
On the flight from Bangui to Rome, the pope addressed questions on COP21, Vatileaks, Islam