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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Congolese bishop: The Vatican under Francis is 'closer to the reality that we live'
Francis: 'First commandment' of parish life is closeness to people
Vatican event tackles women's equality, inclusion, ordination
Francis: Theologians should smell like the sheep, too
Pope Francis cements financial reform in new laws, creates Vatican auditor general
Francis picks McElroy, known for mercy emphasis, to lead San Diego diocese
Vatican event seeks to gently push Francis on women's roles
Pope Francis tells Ukrainian bishops to stay out of politics
Sexual abuse prevention center moves to Rome's Gregorian University
Cardinal DiNardo: Francis should speak about family, unborn to Congress
Francis tells cardinals not to be 'closed caste,' seek contact with marginalized
Pope to cardinals: Be kind, not self-centered, never govern unjustly
Vatican: Cardinals not expected to vote on curial reform
Francis strongly criticizes gender theory, comparing it to nuclear arms
Francis: Vatican reform does not serve itself, but evangelization
Cardinals to discuss proposal for two new Vatican congregations
Pope calls not having kids a 'selfish choice'
New cardinal: Vatican should be 'voice of the voiceless'
Papal sexual abuse commission 'developing processes' of accountability
