Delia Gallagher

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Delia Buckley Gallagher (Born 11 March 1970) is CNN’s Faith and Values Correspondent. Based in New York, Gallagher was a long time CNN Vatican Analyst, Vaticanologist, and religious journalist. Prior to joining CNN full time, she lived in Rome for 7 years. In Rome, she wrote a weekly column for Zenit News Agency and was a contributing editor for the magazine Inside the Vatican.

1 California Girl
2 Education
3 Pre-CNN Life
4 CNN Life
5 Links
6 Recent Written Work

[edit] California Girl

Delia Gallagher's parents are both Irish immigrants. They met in America and wed in Ireland in 1969. Delia was born in San Francisco a year later. She grew up in nearby San Jose, where her parents still reside. With four younger brothers, Delia is the oldest of five children.

[edit] Education

Delia attended St. Joseph Cupertino School, Saint Lawrence Academy, the University of San Francisco (she was an editor of The Foghorn, the school newspaper), and Blackfriars, Oxford University, (founded by the Dominican Order), where she got her MPhil in Theology.

Delia speaks fluent Italian and conversational French.

[edit] Pre-CNN Life

While still in college, Delia started working part-time as a writer at KCBS San Francisco. She later joined the AM News Radio station full time after graduation. Her former colleagues described her as "extremely nice, focused, and hard working."

After graduate school, Delia joined the Oxford University Press (OUP) as a researcher and editor. Her work involved being part of the team that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls CD-ROM. She moved to Rome in 1998 and started as a writer for Inside the Vatican. As a member of the Vatican Press Corp, she traveled with Pope John Paul II to Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and within Italy. She also wrote a weekly column for the Zenit News Agency called “Rome Notes.” Delia lived in the Roman neighborhood of Parioli.

[edit] CNN Life

Since launching the position of Faith and Values Correspondent in September 2005, Delia has filed reports on Intelligent Design, Vatican Rules on Homosexuality and the Priesthood, an interview with the author Anne Rice, and Hassidic Jews in Brooklyn. She also appears regularly as an expert on religious matters, most recently, on Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est. She is a regular contributor on “On the Story” and a frequent guest on Lou Dobbs, CNN Newsroom, and Anderson Cooper 360.