He said he told the pope, “I could spend all day here talking to you,” and Francis replied, “So could I!”
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 and Argentina’s President Milei hit it off
Pope Francis and Argentina’s President Javier Milei—who last year called the pope an “imbecile” and “representative of evil” while on the campaign trail—had “a very good and very friendly” hour-long conversation.
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Pope Francis names Argentina’s first woman saint
In a ceremony at the beginning of Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica this morning, Pope Francis canonized María Antonia de San José de Paz y Figueroa, popularly known as Mama Antula, Argentina’s first female saint.
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Pope Francis sends message of peace for the Lunar New Year
On Sunday, Pope Francis sent his greetings to all who will celebrate the Lunar New Year on Feb. 10 and invited everyone to pray for peace.
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Parish priests were missing at the Synod. Now 300 will meet at the Vatican.
Members at last October’s synod, which included cardinals, bishops, women and men religious, lay men and women, noted their concern with the almost total absence of parish priests at the synod assembly.
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Vatican to priests: Stick to the script for Sacraments
The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a doctrinal note approved by Pope Francis that aims to counteract deviations in the administration of the sacraments.
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A short history of Catholic-Anglican relations—and the last roadblocks to unity
In an exclusive interview with Gerard O‘Connell, two bishops—one Catholic, one Anglican—discuss the road ahead toward Christian unity.
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Pope Francis: No peace in Israel and Palestine without two-state solution
“True peace remains distant” between Israel and Palestine until the two-state solution is implemented, Pope Francis said in an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa published today.
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Pope Francis defends blessings of couples in ‘irregular situations,’ including same-sex unions
Pope Francis sought to clarify the declaration on blessings of couples in “irregular situations” in his address today to the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Pope Francis condemns war crimes in Gaza and Ukraine, calls for ban on surrogacy in talk to diplomats
Pope Francis deplored “the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood” and called on the international community “to prohibit this practice universally.”