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Gerard O’Connell is America’s 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.
Marie Collins of Ireland with Cardinal Sean O'Malley
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
"Any delay in improving safeguarding documents around the world is leaving vulnerable people and children in danger."
A man carries containers filled with drinking water after taking it from a public tap at a roadside in Jammu, India, May 23, 2016 (CNS photo/Jaipal Singh, EPA).
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Gerard O’Connell
Addressing 90 experts from many countries, Francis said that “all people have a right to safe drinking water.”
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Gerard O’Connell
“Amoris Laetitia” addresses the reality of Catholics in “non-legitimate unions” and opens the possibility for them to receive the Eucharist under certain conditions.
Syrian refugee children stand outside their school in Zahle, Lebanon, in the country's Bekaa Valley April 12. (CNS photo/Dale Gavlak) 
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The pope's emphasis on protecting undocumented workers is particularly significant for Europe and the United States, where the treatment of refugees and migrants has been a consistent challenge.
Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò. Photo courtesy of Vatican Secretariat for Communication
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Gerard O’Connell
Msgr. Viganò has direct responsibility for the secretariat’s editorial division, where he said, “we are now building a central content hub,” following the “Disney business model.”
Faith
Gerard O’Connell
Francis denounced the abuse of children by priests as “an absolute monstrosity, a horrendous sin, that is radically contrary to all that Christ teaches.”
President Donald J. Trump walks in his inauguration parade on Jan. 20 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File).
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
It is clear that if the president requests an audience, “the door would be open.”
Pope Francis talks with Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civilta Cattolica, while meeting journalists aboard his flight to Havana Feb. 12. Traveling to Mexico for a six-day visit, the pope is stopping briefly in Cuba to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow at the Havana airport. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The pope welcomed the news that La Civilta Cattolica will now be published in English.
Worshippers pray during a Dec. 4 Mass in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing. (CNS photo/How Hwee Young, EPA)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
One fruit of this Sino-Vatican agreement, which neither side has confirmed, will be that “from now on, there will be no more the crisis of a division between the open and underground communities in the church in China,” wrote Cardinal Tong.
Pope Francis and Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, meet at the Vatican Feb. 6. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
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Gerard O’Connell
Catholics and evangelicals must “continue to witness together to the Gospel and to continue on the road to full unity,” Francis said.