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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
The Feb. 21-24, 2019 meeting is believed to be the first of its kind.
Pope Francis attends a meeting with new bishops from mission territories at the Vatican Sept. 8. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The cardinal council members said that they were aware the Holy See “is formulating the eventual and necessary clarifications” to the Viganò documents among other recent events.
Pope Francis poses for a photo with Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, during a private audience at the Vatican April 19. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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Gerard O’Connell
“If the church shows itself to be incapable of responding with all its heart...all our other activities of evangelization will feel it.”
Pope Francis arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter's Square on Aug. 29 at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters) 
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Gerard O’Connell
He said the Gospel story helps us “to reflect how to act in daily life, when there are misunderstandings” and “to understand how the father of lies, the accuser, the devil, acts to destroy the unity of a family, of a people.”
Father Thomas Rosica with Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi during the Synod of Bishops in Rome, October 2015. (CNS/Paul Haring)
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Gerard O’Connell
The statement contradicts Archbishop Viganò’s account of his meeting with the pope, in which he said Francis had never reproached him for organizing the meeting with Ms. Davis.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
A Vatican source said: “The archbishop seems to have declared open war on Pope Francis and the Vatican.”
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Gerard O’Connell
In the Vatican there are feelings of “bitter disappointment” and “restlessness.”
U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, patron of the Knights and Dames of Malta, center left, and a group of priests pose with Pope Francis during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 2. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Cardinal Burke was among the first of a small number of bishops to come out in support of Viganò’s denunciation of the pope.
Pope Francis arrives to pose for pictures with participants of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo during his general audience in St. Peter's Square Aug. 29 at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters) 
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Gerard O’Connell
Sources close to the pope said that “he has no intention of resigning.”
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Gerard O’Connell

Pope Francis traveled to the Marian shrine of Knock in Ireland’s County Mayo on this rainy Sunday morning and offered prayers for the victims of abuse, for families and for peace in Northern Ireland, three themes that have been at the center of his visit to the emerald isle.