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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.

Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
"Peace will be lasting in the measure that we arm our children with the weapons of dialogue.”
Pope Francis leaves in procession after celebrating the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Sept. 27 (CNS photo/Paul Haring).
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
This global gathering “is an event of the whole church,” said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
Pope Francis gives the sheik of Al-Azhar medallion of the Olive of Peace.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“The meeting is the message,” the pope said as he welcomed Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he speaks to Pope Francis while exchanging gifts during private audience at Vatican in June 2014.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
It all began on Aug. 14, 1549, when St. Francis Xavier arrived and introduced Christianity.
Pope Francis passes the flags of the Vatican and France as he arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Nov. 18 (CNS photo/Paul Haring).
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Francis responded to questions relating to the separation of church and state, Islamophobia, pedophilia, synodality and reconciliation with the Lefebvrists.
In All Things
Gerard O’Connell
The pope recalled that “our primordial vocation” is to be “children of God.”
Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
An accord seems possible before the year’s end.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“It’s impossible to launder money at the I.O.R.” today, said the bank’s president.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
John Paul II, who visited in 1997, said, “Lebanon is more than a country; it is a message.”
FAMILY PORTRAIT. Mouhammad Amin El Oujali with his wife, Zafira El Aquad, and their three children.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’Connell
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