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Hannah Brockhaus

Hannah Brockhaus

Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency's senior Rome correspondent. She grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and has a degree in English from Truman State University in Missouri.

Bishop Franco Mulakkal. | file photo.

Pope Francis Accepts Resignation of Indian Bishop Cleared of Rape Charge in Civil Trial

Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignation of an Indian bishop cleared in early 2022 of charges of raping a...

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Vatican Supports Catholic Research to Improve Families and Marriages

Pope Francis has backed a project aimed at enhancing interdisciplinary research at Catholic universities in the sphere of family, marriage,...

Pope Francis shakes hands with film director Martin Scorsese and his wife Helen Morris. One day after suffering from a fever, Pope Francis resumed his normal activities, including meeting with participants in a conference on “The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination,” organized by Jesuit magazine “La Civiltà Cattolica” and Georgetown University, in the Apostolic Palace on May 27, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis Resumes Normal Schedule One Day after Fever

Pope Francis resumed his normal schedule of appointments on Saturday morning after suffering from a fever the day prior, a...

Pope Francis at the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 24, 2023. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis Cancels Meetings on Friday “due to a feverish condition"

Pope Francis canceled meetings on Friday morning due to a fever, a Vatican spokesman confirmed

Pope Francis delivers his Regina Caeli address on May 21, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis on Care for Creation: "God wants justice to reign"

Pope Francis has emphasized the importance of the virtue of justice in a message for the upcoming World Day of...

Pilgrims wave a Chinese flag at the general audience with Pope Francis, Oct. 12, 2022. | Vatican Media.

Pope Francis: Pray that the Gospel Can be Freely Shared in China

Pope Francis asked Catholics Wednesday to pray that the Gospel can be fully and freely shared in China.

Pope Francis spoke about apostolic zeal and the example of Korean martyr St. Andrew Kim Taegon at the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 24, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis: St. Andrew Kim Taegon Teaches us "we must not give up"

St. Andrew Kim Taegon and the other Korean martyrs teach us to have courage when sharing the Gospel, even in...

Pope Francis at the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 24, 2023. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Vatican Auditor to Continue to Function During Sede Vacante, Pope Francis Rules

Pope Francis has established that the auditor general of the Holy See will continue to carry out its tasks during...

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Judge Orders Psychiatric Treatment for Man Who Forcibly Entered Vatican

A Vatican magistrate has sentenced the unidentified man who forcibly entered Vatican City on Thursday night to mandatory psychiatric treatment,...

Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna, was made a cardinal during the consistory of Oct. 5, 2019. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA.

Vatican: Italian Cardinal Entrusted with Ukraine Peace Mission

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has been asked by Pope Francis to head a peace mission between Russia and Ukraine on behalf...

Canonization Mass for St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini on Oct. 9, 2022. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis Approves Beatification of Priest Martyred in World War II

Pope Francis on Saturday approved the beatification of a young Italian priest martyred by Nazis during World War II, and...

Statue of Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia Herzegovina. | Gnuckx via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Alleged Marian Apparitions the Subject of New Vatican Observatory

An institution has been formed in Rome to study alleged Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena in the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis opens the Holy Doors at St. Peter's Basilica to begin the Year of Mercy, Dec. 8, 2015. | L'Osservatore Romano.

Rome Prepares for 35 Million Pilgrims During 2025 Jubilee Year

As Rome and the Vatican prepare for an influx of millions of people for a special year focused on hope,...

Pope Francis greeted victims of sexual abuse by members of the Church after the general audience on May 17, 2023. The victims arrived in Rome after making a pilgrimage by bicycle from Munich, Germany. | Archdiocese of Munich and Freising

Abuse Victims Share "wounded heart" with Pope Francis After Bike Trek from Germany

Pope Francis on Wednesday met briefly with a group of abuse victims who undertook a bicycle pilgrimage from Germany to...

Pope Francis arrives at the Paul VI Hall for his weekly general audience on Ash Wednesday Feb. 22, 2023. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis Issues New Constitution for Vatican City State

Pope Francis on Saturday issued a new constitution of the Vatican City State that further emphasizes the power of the...

Pope Francis at the Wednesday general audience on Dec. 28, 2022. | Credit: Vatican Media.

Pope Francis Laments New Euthanasia Law in Portugal on Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

Pope Francis on Saturday expressed his sorrow over the legalization of euthanasia in Portugal.

Pope Francis met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on May 13, 2023, their first meeting since the start of the full-scale war with Russia. | Vatican Media.

Pope Francis and Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy Meet at Vatican

Pope Francis and the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met at the Vatican on Saturday.

Pope Francis shared a stage with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on May 12, 2023, to speak at a two-day conference on “The General State of the Birth Rate,” held at Conciliazione Auditorium close to the Vatican. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis: Birth Rate is a Key Indicator of a Country’s Hope

Pope Francis said Friday a society’s birth rate is a key indicator of the hope people have in the future.

Pope Francis receives relics of the Coptic martyrs from Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, May 11, 2023. Pope Francis also announced that the 21 men will be added to the Church’s official list of saints. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Adds Coptic Orthodox Martyrs to Liturgical Book of Saints

Pope Francis said Thursday that the Coptic Orthodox martyrs killed by ISIS in 2015 will be added to the Catholic...

Kryzysztof Gawrysiak and his wife, Aneta, (at center) spent more than two hours with Pope Francis at his Vatican residence on May 4, 2023, to discuss their new online initiative, pray4teens.org, which they started after learning more about the rates of depression — and suicide attempts — among adolescents around the world. | Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Pope Francis Welcomes Program to Spiritually Adopt A Struggling Teen

Pope Francis has given his blessing to a program started in Poland to spiritually adopt struggling teenagers and pray for...