The pope’s words can be read as an answer to those who hope his pontificate may end soon.
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior 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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Canadian cardinal spent 9 years in a Colombian war zone. Now he serves a new periphery.
Pope Francis encouraged Cardinal Lacroix and the bishops from Quebec to be a missionary church, “a church that goes out, reaches out to people.”
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Pope Francis announces aid to war stricken people of South Sudan
The war has “caused a grave humanitarian crisis that has left half of the country’s population, around 7.3 million people, hungry every day.”
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Pope Francis encourages Chancellor Merkel to continue the fight against climate change
This was the pope and chancellor’s sixth meeting.
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Pope Francis will meet with Venezuela bishops as crisis deepens
The meeting comes in the midst of an ongoing national crisis in Venezuela marked by daily protests that have lasted more than 70 days and by acts of repression from the forces of President Maduro’s government.
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Avoid becoming Christians of “the right or the left” urges Pope Francis during Pentecost Homily
Pope Francis celebrated Pentecost Mass, urging Christians to avoid “diversity without unity” and “unity without diversity.”
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Vatican official: President Trump’s decision to withdraw from Paris climate change accord a ‘disaster’
Vatican officials slammed it as “a disaster for the whole world because the United States has such importance today and is a country that many follow.”
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Pope Francis denounces roadside attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt
The attack in central Egypt today killed at least 26 people, including children aged 2 to 4, and wounded 25 others.
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Despite apprehension, Pope Francis and President Trump talked in a “relaxed, sincere way,” sources say
Media reports that the meeting was “cold” are “a gross misinterpretation,” a Vatican source told America.
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‘I won’t forget what you said,’ Trump tells pope after meeting at Vatican
President Donald Trump and Pope Francis held a private 30-minute meeting at the Vatican on Wednesday laden with religious symbolism and ancient protocol.