Joshua J. McElwee
Joshua J. McElwee was NCR's news editor from 2021-24. He was previously the publication's Vatican correspondent from 2014-21, where his dispatches from Rome and during papal trips abroad were frequently cited by his peers, and broadly seen as a touchstone for nuanced Vatican and papal coverage.
Among McElwee's most noted work was his years-long, tenacious coverage of Pope Francis' clergy abuse commission, which through a series of exclusive interviews with ex-members of the group revealed serious shortcomings to its work.
McElwee was also the first journalist to break the news of Pope Francis' promise during a meeting with an international group of sisters and nuns in 2016 to create a commission to study the history of the ordination of women as deacons in the Catholic Church.
McElwee reported for NCR from 39 countries and traveled for the publication in the press pool abroad with Pope Francis 24 times.
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Francis asks Christians to add new works of mercy in push for climate change action
Francis creates new Vatican office for charity, justice, peace, migration
Francis: No one is ever thrown away or discarded by God
New Canadian archbishop: A church in dialogue doesn't just mean 'yelling louder'
Francis to focus 2017 peace message on non-violence as 'political method'
Morning Briefing, International
Francis asks priests to learn that life isn't black and white, but shades of grey
Morning Briefing, International
Members of Francis' women deacons commission express diverse views
Morning Briefing, International
Global sisters group thanks Francis for creating commission on women deacons
Francis institutes commission to study female deacons, appointing gender-balanced membership
Francis asks media to withhold judgment on Cardinal Pell abuse claims
Francis to world's youth: Be vanguard of a 'new humanity'
Francis makes rousing call for millennials to get off couch and fix world
Francis tells Polish clergy: The Gospel is unfinished, we write it with our mercy
With 'Way of Mercy,' youths show Francis desire to welcome migrants
At Auschwitz, Francis quietly begs God's forgiveness 'for so much cruelty'
Francis tells Poles: God not in a history book, but peoples' real lives
