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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.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Cardinals from all continents expressed ldquo appreciation rdquo for the reforms already achieved or underway in the Roman Curia under Pope Francis particularly in the field of Vatican Finances but they recognized that there is still a long way to go before the reform can be completed They also
Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with cardinals and cardinals-designate in the synod hall at the Vatican Feb. 12. At left is Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
The establishment of two new congregations mdash the first for ldquo Laity-Family-Life rdquo the second for ldquo Charity-Justice-Peace rdquo that includes a new office for ecology mdash were among the proposals for reform of the Roman Curia that were presented to the College of Cardinals on F
Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Francis gives priority to situations of conflict, poverty or natural disaster
NEXT STEPS. Peter Saunders, left, and Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M.Cap., at a press conference on Feb. 7.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’Connell
‘The accountability of bishops is a source of great concern” to the 17 members of the Commission for the Protection of Minors, said Cardinal Seán O’Malley, O.F.M.Cap., leader of the Archdiocese of Boston and the president of the body, at a Vatican press briefing on Feb. 7.Marie Co
Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley gives homily during National Prayer Vigil for Life at national shrine in Washington (CNS photo/Bob Roller).
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
ldquo The accountability of bishops is a source of great concern rdquo to the 17 members of the Commission for the Protection of Minors established by Pope Francis in March 2014 Cardinal Sean O rsquo Malley the president of this body told reporters at a Vatican press briefing February 7 ldquo
Father Robert W. Oliver, a Boston priest, was apppointed by Pope Francis as new secretary of Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
In a new and important initiative aimed at protecting minors from sexual abuse in the Catholic Church eliminating all such abuse and assisting the victims of past abuse Pope Francis has sent a letter to the Presidents of the Bishops Conferences and the Superiors of the Institutes of Consecrated Li
THE CHURCH IS IN THE BISHOP. Pope Francis presents a pallium in St. Peter’s Basilica last June to Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Conn.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis has decided that the public ceremony of investiture of metropolitan archbishops with the pallium will henceforth take place in the prelates’ home dioceses, not in the Vatican as has been the case under recent pontiffs.He believes that in this way the ceremony “will greatly f
Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Mandated by the cardinals in the pre-conclave meetings to reform the Roman Curia, Pope Francis is taking his task very seriously and moving in a more radical direction than anyone had expected. His aim is not simply structural reform of the Vatican offices, though that is part of it; his primary goa
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Archbishop Oscar Romero ldquo is a martyr of the Church of the Second Vatican Council In killing him they wanted to hit the Church that flowed from the Second Vatican Council rdquo Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia the postulator of his cause for beatification told a press briefing in the Vatican on
Archbishop Oscar Romero murder formally recognized as "in hatred of the faith"
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
El Salvadoran archbishop 'was killed in hatred of the faith' on March 24, 1980