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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 speaks during a meeting with local religious leaders at a memorial dedicated to sailors and migrants lost at sea on the first of a two-day visit to Marseille, France, Sept. 22, 2023. | Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Pope Francis in Marseille: It’s "a duty of humanity" to Save Migrants Abandoned at Sea

“We can no longer watch the drama of shipwrecks, caused by the cruel trafficking and the fanaticism of indifference,” the...

Vatican Cardinal to Make Charity Mission to Ukraine City Hit by Russian Drones

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski is in Ukraine this week to open the House of Refuge “in the name of Pope Francis,...

Archbishop Domenico Battaglia holds up the reliquary with the liquefied blood of St. Januarius on the martyr bishop's feast day Sept. 19, 2023. The announcement that the blood had liquefied was made at the start of Mass in the Naples Cathedral by Abbot Vincenzo De Gregorio. | Screenshot / YouTube channel Chiesa di Napoli

Blood of St. Januarius “completely liquefied” on Tuesday, His Feast Day

The blood “is not an oracle to consult and even less a city horoscope whose function is to predict misfortune...

Pope Francis addressed pilgrims and tourists at his first outdoor general audience after the summer on Sept. 6, 2023. | Vatican Media

Synod 2023: What has Pope Francis Said about Synodality?

Synodality isn’t “a chapter in an ecclesiology textbook” or a “fad or a slogan to be bandied about in our...

"Stumbling blocks" in Rome, Italy. Plates inscribed with the name and dates of life of the victim of Nazi persecution. | Shutterstock

Documents Identify Thousands of Jews hidden by Religious Orders When Nazis Occupied Rome

Research in the archive of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome has uncovered a list of the names of thousands...

Pope Francis spoke about his recent trip to Mongolia during the general audience in St. Peter's Square on Sept. 6, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis: Don’t Overlook Goodness Because of Scandal

Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged people to look for the quiet goodness in the world, even when the tendency is...

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Luis Ladaria. | Vatican Media.

Pope Francis Thanks Spanish Jesuit Cardinal for Service at Dicastery for Doctrine of Faith

Pope Francis met with Cardinal Luis Ladaria on Tuesday morning to thank him for his six years as head of...

Pope Francis delivers a Laudato Si' video message May 24, 2021. | Screenshot

Pope Francis to Release Second Laudato Si’ on Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, October 4

Pope Francis said Wednesday he will release a follow-up environmental document to the 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’ on Oct. 4, the feast...

Pope Francis greets newly married couples at the general audience in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall on Aug. 30, 2023. | Adi Zace/CNA

Pope Francis: St. Kateri Tekakwitha is an Example of Patience in Suffering

St. Kateri Tekakwitha teaches us to live an ordinary holiness and to confront the suffering of life with patience, Pope...

Pope Francis speaks at the general audience on Aug. 23, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis: People — not machines — are the Value of Work

Pope Francis told a group of entrepreneurs this week that work’s greatest value comes from human beings, not from machines.

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

Pope Francis Asks for Prayers As He Travels to Mongolia, "the heart of Asia"

Pope Francis has asked for prayers as he prepares to visit “the heart of Asia,” the sparsely-populated country of Mongolia.

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...