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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 gives the weekly Angelus address on Aug. 27, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis: "Look to Jesus always"

Christ is with us and walking beside us in our daily journey through life, including our struggles to be holy,...

Pope Francis gives the weekly Angelus address on Aug. 27, 2023. | Vatican Media.

Pope Francis: "We cannot be indifferent" to People Caught in Drug Addiction

Pope Francis said on Sunday we are called to act like Jesus and cannot be indifferent to the situations that...

Pope Francis talks with lawyers from the Council of Europe at the Vatican on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Criticizes "misguided notion" of the Human Person in Speech to Lawyers

Pope Francis on Monday decried the increasing influence of “a misguided notion of human nature and of the human person.”

Pope Francis sits in front of an image of Blessed Giuseppe "Don Pino" Puglisi during a meeting with young people in the Archdiocese of Palermo, on the Italian island region Sicily, on Sept. 15, 2018. | Vatican Media.

"All the way in love": Pope Francis Praises Example of Mafia-slain Priest

Blessed Giuseppe “Don Pino” Puglisi “went all the way in love,” Pope Francis said in a letter published ahead of...

Pope Francis presides over a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on July 23, 2023, for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. | Pablo Esparza/EWTN

Pope Francis Writing a Second Environmental Document after Laudato Si’

Pope Francis announced during an audience with lawyers Monday that he is writing a second part to his 2015 environmental...

Pope Francis waves from a window of the Apostolic Palace during his Angelus address and prayer on Aug. 20, 2023. | Vatican Media.

Pope Francis: Christians "are invited to be open to change"

Christians should imitate Jesus in being steadfast — not inflexible — in their convictions, thus being open to change for...

Pope Francis poses next to a miniature model of a ship with Madagascar's President Andry Nirina Rajoelina and his family in the Vatican's apostolic palace on Aug. 17, 2023. | Vatican Media.

Pope Francis Meets Catholic President of Madagascar

Pope Francis met Thursday with the Catholic president of Madagascar, Andry Nirina Rajoelina. The president was accompanied by his wife...

Pope Francis blesses the crowd from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the end of his Sunday Angelus address Aug. 13, 2023. | Vatican Media.

"An open wound": Pope Francis Decries Thousands of Deaths in Mediterranean Sea this Year

Pope Francis called attention Sunday to the thousands of people who have lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean...

Pope Francis gives his Angelus address June 29, 2023. | Credit: Vatican News

Pope Francis: Jesus Conquers "death, sin, the devil"

In times of fear and difficulty, call on Jesus, who has already conquered the powers of evil, Pope Francis said...

Pope Francis smiles at pilgrims during his Wednesday general audience in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall on Aug. 9, 2023. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis: Mary "never keeps us waiting"

Pope Francis said Wednesday he likes to invoke the Virgin Mary under the title of “Our Lady ‘in haste’” because...

Pope Francis waves at the crowd of 1.5 million people who attended the closing Mass of World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal on Aug. 6, 2023. | Vatican Media.

"Be not afraid," Pope Francis Tells Young People at End of World Youth Day

“Be not afraid,” Pope Francis told young Catholics Sunday at the closing Mass of World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon,...

Pilgrims from South Korea wave a flag at Mass with Pope Francis for the closing of World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon on Aug. 6, 2023. | Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Next World Youth Day to be in South Korea in 2027

The next World Youth Day will be held in Seoul, South Korea in 2027, Pope Francis announced at the conclusion...

James Nyumah, 23, from Liberia, (pictured third from left) hangs out with new friends from Australia while attending a "Rise Up" session at World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 2, 2023. | Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Pilgrims From Liberia Overcome Travel Troubles to Attend WYD: "Being here is a miracle"

They made it “by the grace of God,” 36-year-old Father Ernest Wisner said about the presence of his small group...

Pope Francis gives his Angelus address June 29, 2023. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis: Discernment Helps us Find the Gems among the Junk

Pope Francis on Sunday encouraged Christians to learn how to seek and find the precious things in life, including a...

Bishop Georg Bätzing watches ZdK president Irme Stetter-Karp speak at the "Synodal Way" assembly in Frankfurt, Germany, Sept 8. 2022. | Synodaler Weg / Maximilian von Lachner

Vatican and German Bishops Discuss Theological Questions from Synodal Way

German bishops and representatives of the Roman Curia met in the Vatican on Wednesday to continue discussions started last year...

The Medjugorje Youth Festival, in its 34th edition, is being held July 26–30, 2023, at the site of alleged Marian apparitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Radio MIR Međjugorje

"God has a plan": Pope Francis to Medjugorje Youth Festival

Shun laziness and selfishness and do not be afraid to follow God’s plan for your life, Pope Francis told the...

St. Mary Magdalene relic at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist of the Florentines. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

In Rome, Relic of St. Mary Magdalene’s Foot Points Way to the Vatican

As the stories of many ancient things go, the relic of St. Mary Magdalene’s left foot had been lost to...

Pope Francis greets an elderly couple at his general audience on Jan. 11, 2023 | Vatican Media

Vatican Offers Plenary Indulgence for Third Annual Grandparents’ Day this Month

The Vatican will again offer a plenary indulgence to mark the third World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly on...

Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on June 28, 2023. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Vatican to Collect Stories of Christian Martyrs Killed Since 2000

The Vatican announced Wednesday the creation of a commission to research and catalog the stories of Christian martyrs from the...

Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on June 28, 2023. | Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis Condemns Quran Burning in interview with UAE Newspaper

Pope Francis has spoken to Al-Ittihad in his first interview granted to an Arabic news outlet, according to the United...