Pope Francis brought his message of love and inclusion with both words and gestures.
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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Pope Francis is taking 12 Syrian refugees back to Rome, and all of them are Muslims.
Six of the refugees are children, and all are Muslims
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Pope Francis meets with refugees in camp and tells them: You are not alone.
Francis was joined by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and the Primate of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymous II.
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Refugees at the Caritas Hotel in Lesbos consider themselves lucky.
“I got here thanks to Allah,” said Munir, whose son was killed in Syria.
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‘His visit is like a message from God.’ Refugee camp looks forward to visit from Pope Francis
More than half a million refugees have passed through Lesbos over the past year.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Will Indonesia be Pope Francis’ next Asian trip?
Pope Francis is on record as saying that the future of the church is in Asia.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Francis Urges Church to Reach Out, Accompany Contemporary Families
In his post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the family, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis not only strongly affirms the traditional Christian ideal of marriage; he also opens doors to the progressive integration into the life of the church of those Catholic
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Pope Francis appoints new nuncio to the United States
Pope Francis has appointed the French-born Archbishop Christophe Pierre, one of the Holy See’s most distinguished and respected diplomats.
Posted inFaith, Synod on the Family
‘Amoris Laetitia’ represents an organic development of doctrine, ‘not a rupture.’
Cardinal Schönborn: “There is continuity in teaching here, but there is also something really new.”
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Pope Francis: the church must integrate, not exclude, Catholics in ‘irregular situations’
Integration requires discernment, but the doors are open, even to the sacraments.