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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’ arm, tied up in a white sling, was visible in photos taken on the morning of Jan. 16, 2025, in the apostolic palace during his scheduled audiences. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Suffers Bruised Right Arm after Falling at His Residence: Vatican

Pope Francis’ arm, tied up in a white sling, was visible in photos taken on the morning of Jan. 16...

Church at the Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna, Nigeria. / Credit: Father Samuel Kanta Sakaba, rector of a Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna

Nigeria Tops Report for Number of Christians Killed, Kidnapped in 2024

The World Watch List, released Jan. 15, found that 3,100 Christians were killed and 2,830 Christians were kidnapped in Nigeria...

Pope Francis greets young cancer patients who are on pilgrimage from Poland to Rome during a Jan. 10, 2025, audience at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Tells Pediatric Cancer Patients They Are "witnesses of hope"

Pope Francis told a group of children receiving treatment for cancer in Poland they are “witnesses of hope” to those...

Tess Livingstone, author of “George Cardinal Pell: Pax Invictis” (“Peace to the Unconquered”). / Credit: Courtesy of Carmel Communications and Ignatius Press

“He was a builder”: Biographer, Journalist Eulogizes Late Australian-born Cardinal Two Years after Death

“He had a reformist mindset... Pell would look around and think, well, what is to be done? What can we...

Father Roberto Pasolini. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Pope’s Preacher Speaks on His Humanity, Return to Faith, and Being a Bible "expert"

Father Roberto Pasolini, recently appointed as preacher of the Papal Household, opens up about his journey from teenage faith struggles...

Pope Francis greets Sister Simona Brambilla, superior general of the Consolata Missionary Sisters, on June 5, 2017 in Clementine Hall at the Vatican. | Credit: L’Osservatore Romano

Pope Francis Appoints First-ever Woman to Head Vatican Dicastery

Sister Simona Brambilla will lead the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life together with Cardinal...

Pope Francis greets pilgrims gathered for Mass on the solemnity of the Epiphany on Jan. 6, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

The Star of the Magi Symbolizes the Love of God: Pope Francis on Epiphany

“The star,” Pope Francis said, “speaks to us of that unique light that can show to all people the way to salvation...

Pope Francis carries the statue of the Child Jesus to place in the Nativity scene inside St. Peter's Basilica at the end of Mass on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2024, surrounded by children dressed in traditional clothing from their countries. / Credit: Vatican Media

God is our hope: Pope Francis on Christmas 2024

The 88-year-old Pope Francis presided over Mass during the Night on Christmas Eve after opening the Holy Door to officially...

Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica before Mass on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2024, officially launching the Jubilee Year 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Launches Jubilee 2025 with Opening of Holy Door

The 88-year-old Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica before Mass on Christmas Eve, officially launching the...

Pope Francis presides over Holy Mass on Gaudete Sunday on the island of Corsica, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Pope Francis Praises Faith of Catholics in Corsica, Island in the Mediterranean Sea

During the Dec. 15 trip, the pontiff encouraged the island’s Catholic majority to continue to foster its traditional piety as...

The sun rises over the island of Corsica, France. / Credit: Andrew Mayovskyy/Shutterstock

Five Things to Know about Popular Piety and Pope Francis’ Trip to Corsica, Island in the Mediterranean Sea

Part of the pope’s itinerary for the short trip is to speak at the closing of a conference on popular...

Pope Francis speaks to members of the International Theological Commission at the Vatican on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. / Vatican Media

Pope Francis Confirms Plans to Visit Turkey for Historic Nicaea Council Anniversary

The Council of Nicaea took place in the ancient city of Nicaea in 325 A.D. in the former Roman Empire,...

Facade of St. Peter's Basilica / Credit: Nils Huber / Unsplash

Vatican May Add "spiritual abuse" to Crimes in Church Law

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is forming a working group with the Dicastery for Legislative Texts...

The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation awards the Ratzinger Prize to Notre Dame theologian Cyril O’Regan and Japanese sculptor Etsurō Sotoo at in a ceremony at the Vatican on Nov. 22, 204. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Prestigious Ratzinger Prize Awarded to Notre Dame Theologian, Japanese Sculptor at Vatican

The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation chooses the annual recipients of the award, which is named in honor of the...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell celebrates Mass for the World Meeting of Families 2022 on June 25, 2022. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Pope Francis Assigns U.S. Cardinal to Carry out "urgent" Overhaul of Vatican Pension Fund

In a Nov. 21 letter to cardinals, prefects, and managers in the Roman Curia, the pope underlined the gravity of...

Pope Francis waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Angelus address on Nov. 10, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Asks Rome’s Catholics to Help Combat "housing emergency" during 2025 Jubilee

“I want all diocesan realities that own real estate to offer their contribution to stem the housing emergency,” Pope Francis...

Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples, Italy. / Credit: Vincenzo Amoruso via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Italy’s Mafia-fighting "street priest" Archbishop Domenico Battaglia to Become a Cardinal

Battaglia’s reputation as a “street priest” close to drug addicts and the poor has also led some to view him...

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Pope Francis Urges "human-centered" Approach to "climate finance" at UN COP29 Summit

Pope Francis warned that both foreign debt and ecological debt are “mortgaging the future” of nations.

Pope Francis meets with members of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) on March 23, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican, Catholic Leaders from Europe Discuss Sexual Abuse in the Church

The Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is hosting a conference on safeguarding in the Catholic Church in...

The Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library, the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City, is one of the oldest libraries in the world. / Credit: Checco2/Shutterstock

Pope Francis Moves Part of Vatican Library and Archive to Rome Seminary

The pope declared that part of the archives and library be moved to a building on extraterritorial Vatican property at...