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
“The meeting is the message,” the pope said as he welcomed Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb.
Dispatches
It all began on Aug. 14, 1549, when St. Francis Xavier arrived and introduced Christianity.
Dispatches
Francis responded to questions relating to the separation of church and state, Islamophobia, pedophilia, synodality and reconciliation with the Lefebvrists.
In All Things
The pope recalled that “our primordial vocation” is to be “children of God.”
Vatican Dispatch
An accord seems possible before the year’s end.
Dispatches
“It’s impossible to launder money at the I.O.R.” today, said the bank’s president.
Dispatches
John Paul II, who visited in 1997, said, “Lebanon is more than a country; it is a message.”
Vatican Dispatch
Francis' visit to a refugee camp was a message to Europe and the rest of us.
Signs Of the Times
A young Syrian couple and their three young children, including a 2-month-old baby suffering from hydrocephalus and spina-bifida, are among 101 vulnerable refugees scheduled to take an Alitalia plane from Beirut to Rome in the early morning hours of May 3 to begin a new life in Italy.Mouhammad Amin
Dispatches
The plight of these siblings brought into sharp focus the vital importance of proper medical care for refugee children.