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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.

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

Pope Francis Asks for Prayers for Sudan as Military Factions Battle for Control

Pope Francis asked people to pray for Sudan on Sunday, that the country’s rival military factions might lay down their...

Pope Francis delivered a brief message before reciting the Regina Caeli prayer on Easter Monday, April 10, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis: Share the Good News of Christ’s Resurrection with Others

Pope Francis encouraged Christians to not be held back by fear of judgment, but to share the good news of...

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"The most important and beautiful day of history": Pope Francis on Easter 2023

Pope Francis presided over Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday 2023, before giving the traditional Urbi et Orbi...

Pope Francis washes the feet of 12 young men and women, inmates at Casal del Marmo juvenile detention center on Rome’s outskirts, during a Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday, April 6, 2023. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Washes Feet of Young Inmates on Holy Thursday 2023

Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 young men and women, inmates at a juvenile prison in Rome, during a...

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus reflection from the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on March 26, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis Revises the Penal Law of the Eastern Catholic Churches

Pope Francis on Wednesday revised parts of the penal law of the Eastern Catholic Churches.

The installation ceremony of Bishop John Peng Weizhao in Nanchang, China, on Nov. 24, 2022. | Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association

Report: Chinese Bishop Appointed to Shanghai Without Vatican Approval

A Chinese bishop was installed Tuesday as the bishop of Shanghai without the Vatican’s approval, according to Asia News.

Pope Francis meets with executives and employees of the Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale, Italy's main welfare agency, April 3, 2023. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Tells Italian Welfare Agency Not to Forget Foreign Workers

Pope Francis has urged Italy’s main welfare agency not to forget the contribution of foreign workers.

Pope Francis greets religious sisters at the end of his general audience on Aug. 10, 2022. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis Extends Time to Appeal Dismissal from Consecrated Life

Pope Francis amended canon law on Monday to give members of institutes of consecrated life more time to appeal a...

Pope Francis presided over Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square on April 2, 2023. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis on Palm Sunday 2023: Lost, Confused, Forgotten? Jesus is with You

On Palm Sunday, Pope Francis said Jesus voluntarily took on the pain and abandonment of his Passion and Crucifixion so...

Pope Francis celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Square for Easter 2022 | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Here is Pope Francis’ Schedule for Holy Week and Easter 2023

Palm Sunday marks the start of one of the most full and beautiful liturgical periods of the Catholic Church year.

Pope Francis' General Audience in St. Peter's Square on March 29, 2023. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Vatican: Pope Francis had Pizza Dinner, May Leave Hospital Tomorrow

The Vatican said Friday that Pope Francis may be discharged from the hospital on Saturday after responding well to treatments...

Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on March 8, 2023. | Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Pope Francis Rested Well, Continuing Treatment in Hospital, Vatican Says

Pope Francis will continue to receive treatment after being hospitalized for a respiratory infection on Wednesday, a Vatican spokesman said...

Pope Francis' General Audience in St. Peter's Square on March 29, 2023. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis: "The true Christian is one who receives Jesus within"

Pope Francis on Wednesday spoke against a comfortable Christianity that keeps Jesus at arm’s length rather than inviting him into...

Pope Francis gives an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica March 27, 2020. | Vatican Media.

Pope Francis to Bless Satellite Set to Launch his Words into Space

Pope Francis on Wednesday will bless a satellite that will launch his words into space on June 10.

Pope Francis meets with participants of the Minerva Dialogues — a meeting of scientists, engineers, business leaders, lawyers, philosophers, Catholic theologians, ethicists, and members of the Roman Curia to discuss digital technologies — at the Vatican on March 27, 2023. | Credit: Vatican Media

An Ethical Artificial Intelligence Respects Human Dignity: Pope Francis

Pope Francis said emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning could be beneficial to society as long as...

Pope Francis at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary Sept. 12, 2021. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

"Christ is our future": Vatican Announces Theme, Schedule for Pope Francis’ Hungary Trip

Pope Francis will travel to Budapest, Hungary, in just over a month for an April 28–30 visit to the capital...

Pope Francis speaks during his Angelus address on March 19, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis: The Differences of Others are an Occasion to Love Better

We should treat the physical and social differences of others as a chance to love, not as an inconvenience, Pope...

Palazzo della Rovere, also called Palazzo dei Penitenzieri. | Credit: Lalula via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0

Historic Building Near Vatican to Become Four Seasons Hotel

A Catholic order of knighthood has signed a leasing agreement that will allow a Four Seasons hotel to manage part...

Pope Francis at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on March 15, 2023 | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

A Christian Life Based on Achieving Higher Positions is "pure paganism": Pope Francis

Pope Francis said Wednesday that everyone in the Church is equal in dignity, thus a focus on hierarchical advancement is...

The faithful in Nicaragua participate in a pilgrimage in support of the bishops, July 28, 2018. | Photo credit: Javier Ruiz / Facebook Archdiocese of Managua

Nicaragua to Close Vatican Embassy in Managua, Nicaraguan Embassy to Holy See

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has ordered the closing of the Vatican embassy in Managua and the Nicaraguan embassy...