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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.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Catholic mother of five.
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FaithNews
Gerard O’Connell
The pope urged people "to listen, to be a neighbor, to bear witness.”
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Politics & SocietyNews
Gerard O’Connell
“May the Most High receive the dead in his peace, comfort their families and sustain the wounded,” he prayed as he addressed thousands of pilgrims from many countries gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Oct. 28.
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FaithNews Analysis
Gerard O’Connell
The text is intended as a guideline to be adapted at the national and local level in different countries.
Francis
FaithNews
Gerard O’Connell
His statement appeared to be a reference to those seeking to divide the church today and those using the abuse scandals to further other agendas.
Cardinal Gerald C. Lacroix of Quebec, center, participate in a pilgrimage hike from the Monte Mario nature reserve in Rome to St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 25. Participants in the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment, and young people from Rome parishes took part in the hike. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The cardinals and bishops who participated in the synod may have “a little more wisdom,” but the young people “have the enthusiasm and the creativity to help us bring Jesus Christ to the world.”
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
There is “a wonderful spirit” at the synod and Cardinal Nichols thinks this is due to the fact that “we’ve gone from talking about young people and from talking to young people, to talking with them. In a strange sort of way it’s become what Pope Francis means by synodality.”
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“Jesus finds people where they are, but he never leaves them where they are.”
 Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, then nuncio to the United States, and then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, are seen in a combination photo during the beatification Mass of Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, N.J., Oct. 4, 2014. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In this third letter Archbishop Viganò no longer insists that the restrictions that he claimed Benedict XVI had imposed on Archbishop McCarrick can be understood as “sanctions.”
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The pope said he would visit North Korea “if an official invitation arrives.”