Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera and Teresa Morris Kettelkamp will lead the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
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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Don’t expect definitive answers at the end of the Synod’s final October session
Pope Francis has asked the October synod to focus not on single issues but on one key question: “How to be a synodal church in mission?”
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After backlash, Vatican clarifies Pope Francis’ call for Ukraine to have ‘courage of the white flag’
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmitro Kuleba, said on Sunday that Ukraine will “never” raise the white flag to negotiate with Russia, and criticized the pope’s remarks for asking to do just this.
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New archbishop of Buenos Aires: We must make Pope Francis’ vision a reality
“We have to make ‘Evangelii Gaudium’ a reality,” Archbishop García Cuerva tell Gerard O’Connell. “We must make a reality Francis’ words, his documents, his vision of the church as a field hospital.”
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Pope Francis calls for ‘immediate cease-fire in Gaza and in the entire Middle Eastern region’
At the noon prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis called for a cease-fire and for “the continuation of negotiations” to bring about the release of hostages taken by Hamas and the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
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Meet the ‘shanty town priest’ Pope Francis made the archbishop of Buenos Aires
In an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell, Archbishop Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva explains why his first three Masses in Buenos Aires were celebrated in a shanty town, prison and cemetery.
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‘We can live together’: A Palestinian doctor and political activist on Gaza, a ceasefire and the future of Israel-Palestine
“Americans should be against killing Israelis but also against killing Palestinians,” the political activist Mustafa Barghouti said in an interview with Gerard O’Connell.
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A Ukranian Catholic priest assesses the war with Russia 2 years in: our spirit is ‘unbreakable’
“If you talk today with the widows who have lost their husbands, and mothers who have lost their sons, you will understand why Russia did not succeed.”
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Pope Francis sets dates for October synod. Study groups will examine first session themes.
They will continue to focus on the theme: “For a synodal church: communion, participation and mission.”
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This Chicago chef teaches inmates to cook. Pope Francis told him to keep going.
He said he told the pope, “I could spend all day here talking to you,” and Francis replied, “So could I!”