China has gained international prestige because of its relations with the Vatican. The Holy See should now seek to obtain more concrete results from its deal with Beijing.
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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Deep Dive: The McCarrick Report and the popes it implicates
Vatican authorities, the U.S. bishops conference and the apostolic nuncio heard scattered allegations about misconduct by McCarrick but discounted them because their sources were considered unreliable.
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Pope Francis takes away investing power from scandal-plagued Secretariat of State
Pope Francis has made another critical decision in the ongoing reform of Vatican finances.
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Analysis: Pope Francis’ newest cardinals will help pick his successor. Who are they?
The primacy of the church at the peripheries has been a key theme in Francis’ selection of cardinals. He has used the cardinalate to reach communities in countries that are experiencing poverty, conflict and political tension.
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Pope Francis names 13 new cardinals, including Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington D.C.
The new cardinals will bring the total number of cardinal electors to 128, of whom 73 will have been appointed by Pope Francis.
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Analysis: What is going on at the Vatican’s communications department?
Many are wondering after the lack of response by the Vatican to questions raised about what Pope Francis actually said about civil unions.
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Cardinal Pell, acquitted of sex abuse charges, celebrates first public Mass since returning to Rome
After being received in private audience by Pope Francis last Monday, Cardinal George Pell concluded an unforgettable week by celebrating his first public Mass in Rome since his return to the Vatican on Sept. 30.
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Cardinal Czerny on ‘Fratelli Tutti’: Pope Francis addresses a world ‘on the brink’
“We’re on the brink,” Cardinal Czerny said, because people are suffering from “a health collapse and an economic collapse, at the same moment as the Paris Climate Agreement I.O.U.s are coming in and there is a migrant situation that is dire.”
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In ‘Fratelli Tutti,’ Pope Francis identifies the paradox of populism
Dr. Anna Rowlands told America that Pope Francis ““gets populism. He gets what is the drive toward it and he rescues the notion of what it means to be ‘a people’ from the hands of the populists.”
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First Muslim to ever present a papal encyclical praises ‘Fratelli Tutti’
Jude Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Salem, an advisor to the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, praised Pope Francis as being dedicated to achieving “human fraternity.”