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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 meets with members of Talitha Kum, an international network of consecrated women devoted to helping victims of trafficking, on Feb. 7, 2025, at Casa Santa Marta at the Vatican. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis: Keep the Hope that it is Possible to Eradicate Human Trafficking

In his message for the 11th International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, Pope Francis offered a message...

Pope Francis greets members of the Interprovincial Order of the Profession of Midwifery of Catanzaro on Feb. 6, 2025, at his Casa Santa Marta residence at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Praises Midwives, Obstetricians, Gynecologists Who Welcome Babies with "humanity"

The pope’s words were conveyed in a written speech handed out during an audience with an association of midwives and...

Queen Rania Al Abdullah speaks along with other world leaders at the Children’s Rights Summit on Feb. 3, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis, international Leaders Discuss Children’s Rights at Vatican

The pontiff opened the two-day summit on Feb. 3 with a reflection on the many ways children are oppressed today,...

Pope Francis speaks at the Children’s Rights Summit on Feb. 3, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis to Write Papal Document on Theme of Children

The summit includes panels on the child’s right to resources, to education, to food and health care, to family, to...

Pope Francis meets with the Roman Rota in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

At Vatican Marriage Tribunal, Pope Francis Extols "gift of indissolubility" of Marriage

The pontiff addressed the topic of marriage’s indissolubility, or permanence, in a meeting with members of the Roman Rota, one...

Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the papal plane during an in-flight press conference on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, on his return from his nearly two-week tour of Southeast Asia. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Pope Francis Tells Journalists to Build Communion, "give reasons for hope"

“I dream of a communication that does not peddle illusions or fears but is able to give reasons for hope,”...

Afordia speaks to CNA in Rome on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, about being attacked by terrorists in Nigeria. / Credit: Alberto Basile/CNA

"Pray for Boko Haram": Christian Survivor of Terrorism

A Nigerian woman whose husband was killed by Boko Haram in 2014 has asked for prayers for persecuted Christians and...

Pope Francis blesses a baby during the Saturday jubilee audience in the Vatican’s audience hall on Jan. 11, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis to Give Monthly Bonus to Vatican City Employees with 3 or More Children

At Pope Francis’ personal initiative, Vatican City employees with three or more children will receive a monthly 300-euro bonus and...

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,...