Gerard O'Connell

@gerryorome

Senior Vatican Correspondent for America Media. 4 books incl. The Election of Pope Francis and The Election of Pope Leo XIV (co-authored with Elisabetta Piqué)

Rome Joined November 2011

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Cardinal Rossi hopes Pope Leo will bring light to a ‘dimming’ faith in Argentina americamagazine.org/vatican-dispat…

www.americamagazine.org Cardinal Rossi hopes Pope Leo will bring light to a ‘dimming’ faith in Argentina “I believe his visit will surely brush the ash off a certain weariness, a certain slackness in faith,” Cardinal Rossi said in an interview with America.

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Pope Leo lifts up Argentina’s many saints at Mass in Córdoba americamagazine.org/vatican-dispat…

www.americamagazine.org Pope Leo lifts up Argentina’s many saints at Mass in Córdoba Pope Leo told the 650,000 people at the Mass he concelebrated that “we are called to holiness” and that “this calling is always missionary.”

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An estimated one million young people welcome Pope Leo in the center of Buenos Aires, Nov 10

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Hundreds of thousands of young Argentinians waiting for Pope Leo to arrive at the Spanish Monument in the center of Buenos Aires, Nov 10

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Pope Leo about to board the plane at Cordoba to return to Buenos Aires where he will go straight to the Youth Vigil at the Spanish Monument, Nov. 10