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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.

Ending Clergy Abuse board members and survivors hold a press conference after meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 20, 2025 in Rome. / Credit: Simone Padovani/Getty Images

Pope Leo XIV Meets Clergy Abuse Survivors at Vatican

Four victims and two advocates from Ending Clergy Abuse had an hourlong conversation with Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 20.

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Square on September 28, 2025. / Vatican Media screenshot

Pope Leo to Grieving Father: "Death never has the last word"

Pope Leo XIV has responded to a letter from a grieving father with the encouragement that “death never has the...

Pope Leo XIV answers questions from the media outside Castel Gandolfo in Italy on Oct. 7, 2025. / Credit: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Pope Leo XIV Recalls Palestinians Killed Since October 7 Hamas Attack

Addressing a group of journalists just outside his Castel Gandolfo residence, Villa Barberini, on Oct. 7, the pope said: “Two...

Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile at the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for Mass on Pentecost Sunday on June 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Leo XIV Allows Outside Banks to Manage Holy See Investments

Pope Leo XIV issued “Coniuncta Cura” to allow the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See to use banks...

Pope Leo XIV shakes hands with Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly during an audience with Knights of Columbus leadership at the Vatican on Oct. 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo Thanks Knights of Columbus for Generosity to Vatican, Service to Communities

Pope Leo XIV also expressed his “profound gratitude” for the Knights of Columbus’ funding of restorations in St. Peter’s Basilica...

Swiss Guards model the new military dress uniform in a courtyard of the Swiss Guards’ Vatican barracks during an Oct. 2, 2025, presentation. The uniform, an updated version of a historic uniform used from the late 1800s to 1976, will be used at important events. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Swiss Guards, Protectors of the Pope, Don New Uniforms

The 135 Swiss Guards will don the new uniforms for the first time at a dinner the night before the...

Pope Leo XIV and actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger address the opening day of the “Raising Hope for Climate Justice” conference held at a center near the papal villa of Castel Gandolfo on Oct. 1, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Leo XIV, Arnold Schwarzenegger Promote Care for the Earth at Climate Conference

“We are one family, with one Father, who makes the sun to rise and sends rain on everyone,” Pope Leo...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Parish Church of St. Anne in the Vatican on Sept. 21, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Restores Custom of Christmas Day Mass

The Vatican has announced Pope Leo’s Mass schedule for Nov. 1 through the end of the Christmas season in January...

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for the Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists on Sept. 28, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican Says Catholics Must Respond to Artificial Intelligence Threat to Authentic, Human Communication

The pope’s choice of theme for the 60th World Day of Social Communications 2026, published Monday, is “Preserving Human Voices...

AI-generated photographs of Pope Leo XIV appearing to fall down a flight of stairs outside St. Peter’s Basilica circulated on the internet in June. / Credit: CNA/Screenshot

Vatican Struggles Against Spread of "deepfake" Images of Pope Leo XIV

The Vatican communications team said it has reported hundreds of accounts, mostly on YouTube, posting deepfakes of Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV waves to those gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray the Angelus and listen to his Sunday message on Sept. 21, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media.

"Those who truly love them work for peace": Pope Leo XIV on Palestinians

Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness to those living in the Gaza Strip during his weekly Angelus message on Sept....

Pope Leo XIV addresses thousands of Church and civil lawyers, judges, and others who work in the legal environment during the Jubilee of Workers of Justice, part of the yearlong Jubilee of Hope, in St. Peter's Square on Sept. 20, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media.

Forgiveness Fundamental to Justice: Pope Leo XIV to Legal Professionals at Jubilee

Pope Leo XIV addressed thousands of lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals gathered in Rome for the Jubilee of Workers...

Pope Leo XIV greets the families of the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Family "a gift and a task" for Church, Society: Pope Leo XIV

At the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV addressed participants in a meeting on the challenges to families in Latin America and...

Pope Leo XIV presides over his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 17, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: My Priority is the Gospel, Not Solving the World’s Problems

Pope Leo XIV gave an interview for the biography “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the 21st Century,”...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Supports "important and urgent" Creation Day September 1

Pope Leo XIV has voiced his support for the Sept. 1 celebration of the World Day of Prayer for Creation,...

Pope Leo XIV speaks from a window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square during the Sunday Angelus on Aug. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Prays for Minneapolis School Shooting Victims, Laments "pandemic of arms"

Pope Leo XIV prayed for the victims of a shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis and the children who...

Pilgrims reach out to Pope Leo XIV at the general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: "Christian hope is not evasion, but decision"

Addressing thousands of pilgrims in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 27 emphasized Jesus’ embrace...

Signs hanging in the office of papal charities in Vatican City show the different models of papal blessing certificates that can be ordered, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. / Credit: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Start of Pope Leo XIV’s Pontificate Brings Surge of Interest in Papal Blessings

The surge in blessings reflects enthusiasm over the start of a new pontificate and highlights a traditional practice that combines...

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Angelus address on July 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

How Pope Leo XIV Can Influence Catholic Church’s New Social Media Missionaries

The Vatican is welcoming more than a thousand social media influencers to Rome this week for an event intended to...

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at the age of 24 in 1925, is beloved by many Catholic young people today for his enthusiastic witness to holiness that reaches “to the heights.” / Credit: Public domain

UPDATE: Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati’s Incorrupt Body to Be in Rome for Jubilee of Youth

The coffin holding the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee...