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.
Vatican Dispatch
Francis feels free to offer a fresh look at issues of prudential judgment.
Dispatches
The cardinal said, in hindsight, “I would agree that I should have done more.”
Dispatches
Cardinal Pell testified about an "extraordinary world of crimes and cover-ups," where many wanted to keep the status quo.
Dispatches
As a young priest in the early 1970s, Pell lived in a presbytery with Australia's most notorious pedophile priest.
Dispatches
Cardinal Pell began a multi-day testimony to Australia's Royal Commission on the Institutional Response to the sexual abuse of children.
Dispatches
“Dear Pope Francis, My mum is in heaven. Will she grow angel wings?”
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On flight, Francis discusses John Paul II’ close relationship with a woman, Zika and abortion
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‘A person who only thinks of building walls, and not building bridges, is not Christian....We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.'
Dispatches
Pope delivers a powerful call to conversion at Mass near the Mexican-U.S. border.