Voices
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.
Dispatches
More than half a million refugees have passed through Lesbos over the past year.
Signs Of the Times
In his post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the family, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis not only strongly affirms the traditional Christian ideal of marriage; he also opens doors to the progressive integration into the life of the church of those Catholic
Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis is on record as saying that the future of the church is in Asia.
Dispatches
Pope Francis has appointed the French-born Archbishop Christophe Pierre, one of the Holy See’s most distinguished and respected diplomats.
FaithSynod on the Family
Cardinal Schönborn: “There is continuity in teaching here, but there is also something really new.”
Synod on the Family
Integration requires discernment, but the doors are open, even to the sacraments.
Dispatches
The pope plans to visit the Greek island of Lesbos in mid-April.
Dispatches
Christians are called to be apostles of the mercy which seeks to encounter all forms of poverty and to free this world of so many types of slavery.
Dispatches
Drawing attention to the ongoing violence in Ukraine, Pope Francis called for a special collection in all of the Catholic churches in Europe.
Dispatches
The apostolic exhortation bears the title “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), on love in the family.