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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.
People are seen under tents inside the Moria holding center for refugees and migrants April 15, which Pope Francis was to visit the next day, along with Orthodox leaders, on the Greek island of Lesbos. (CNS photo/Alkis Konstantinidis, Reuters)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
More than half a million refugees have passed through Lesbos over the past year.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’Connell
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
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is on record as saying that the future of the church is in Asia.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
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
Gerard O’Connell
Cardinal Schönborn: “There is continuity in teaching here, but there is also something really new.”
Synod on the Family
Gerard O’Connell
Integration requires discernment, but the doors are open, even to the sacraments.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
The pope plans to visit the Greek island of Lesbos in mid-April.
Pope Francis caresses a child as he makes a tour of St. Peter's Square at the end of a Mass for the the Holy Year of Mercy, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
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.
Ukrainian boys in Kiev hold flowers March 16 during a ceremony marking the second anniversary of people killed in the pro-Russian separatist conflict. (CNS photo/Gleb Garanich, Reuters)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Drawing attention to the ongoing violence in Ukraine, Pope Francis called for a special collection in all of the Catholic churches in Europe.
Pope Francis waves as he leaves a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 24. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
The apostolic exhortation bears the title “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), on love in the family.