“The pope’s presence at COP28 will be a historic event and without precedence in the history of COP,” Judge Mohamed Abdel Salam, a chief architect of the visit, said in this exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell.
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 appeals ‘in the name of God’ for a ‘ceasefire’ in the Israeli-Palestinian war
The pope called for aid to be allowed into Gaza to help the tens of thousands of wounded Palestinians.
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Hong Kong’s Jesuit cardinal Stephen Chow: ‘The pope truly cares about China.’
Cardinal Stephen Chow said officials in China “appreciate that Pope Francis appreciates them” in this exclusive interview with America’s Vatican correspondent.
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Cardinal Pierre on why the U.S. bishops are struggling to connect with Pope Francis
“We cannot say there are bishops who are on the left and ones that are on the right. This is a false analysis,” said Cardinal Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
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Cardinal McElroy: There should never again be a synod without lay people as voting members
“We can’t go backward,” Cardinal Robert McElroy told America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O‘Connell at the end of the first session of the Synod on Synodality.
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Cardinal Cupich on the synod, women deacons, giving bishops job reviews and why ‘LGBTQ’ was left out of the final doc
Exclusive interview: Cardinal Cupich on the end of the first session of the Synod on Synodality.
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Synod Diary: The synod isn’t hiding its disagreements. That’s a good thing.
“Recognizing the divergences is unitive,” a bishop member of the synod told me. “It can provide healing.”
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Pope Francis calls for a stop to Israel-Hamas war for the 6th time
Today, Pope Francis prayed “for all those who suffer” and said he hoped that “paths of peace” may be found for the conflict in the Middle East.
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Pope Francis pleads with Israelis and Palestinians: ‘Stop, stop’ the war.
Pope Francis again called for a stop to the fighting in Israel and Palestine, as he appealed to both sides: “Brothers, stop! Stop!”
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Synod Diary: Will the synod change its members?
After a heartrending testimony in the synod hall, Father Timothy Radcliffe said: “I hope it changed us.”