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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.

The flights for Pope Leo XIV's first apostolic journey are taking place aboard an ITA Airways Airbus A320neo, one of thousands of Airbus planes affected by a computer issue, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News.

Airbus Computer Issue Affects Papal Plane During Trip to Turkey

Around 6,000 Airbus planes were grounded this weekend after it was discovered that intense solar radiation could interfere with onboard...

Pope Leo XIV listens to reports from seven representatives around the world about the implementation of synodality on their continents during the jubilee of synodal teams and participatory bodies at the Vatican on Oct. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Synod on Synodality Reports Reveal Continued Study on Women, But Not Female Diaconate

The reports also show that a new group on the liturgy, requested by Pope Leo XIV, is not addressing the...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, prays before an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Child during the rosary vigil for Pope Francis at the Vatican on Feb. 28, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

“Co-Redemptrix” Not Appropriate Way to Describe Blessed Virgin Mary’s Participation in Salvation: Vatican

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released “Mater Populi Fidelis” (“The Mother of the Faithful People of...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, presides over a press conference on Friday, May 17, 2024, on the Vatican’s new document on Marian apparitions. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN News

Vatican to Weigh In on Mary’s Role in Salvation with Doctrine Document on November 4

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith will release a document on Nov. 4 about titles of Mary that...

Pope Leo XIV signs his apostolic letter on Catholic education, “Drawing New Maps of Hope,” at the end of a Mass for Rome university students in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 27, 2025. The document was published on Oct. 28, 2025, to mark the 60th anniversary of Gravissimum Educationis, the Second Vatican Council’s declaration on Christian education. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Calls for Renewal of Catholic Education Amid Challenges of Modern Society, Technology

In “Drawing New Maps of Hope,” Pope Leo XIV reflects on the role of a Catholic education on the 60th...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates a Mass of episcopal consecration at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica on Oct. 26, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.

Pope Leo XIV: The First Lesson for Every Bishop is Humility

Pope Leo XIV consecrated Mons. Mirosław Stanisław Wachowski a bishop during a Mass at the Altar of the Chair in...

Pope Leo XIV sits next to Cardinal Mario Grech, general secretary of the Vatican's synod office, during the jubilee of synod teams and participatory bodies in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall on Oct. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: There’s No Template for Synodality Across all Countries

Pope Leo XIV spoke about synodality during the jubilee of synodal teams and participatory bodies Oct. 24-26, part of the...

Pope Leo XIV claps with pilgrims during an audience for the Jubilee of Hope in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 25, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media.

Pope Leo XIV Gives Advice for Living with Hope in a "troubled era"

Pope Leo XIV said the key to living in a difficult time, when the Church’s teachings are often challenged, is...

Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during an audience with the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the Vatican on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV to John Paul II Institute: Your Mission is to Speak and Live the Truth

“Your specific mission concerns the search for and common witness to the truth,” Pope Leo XIV said Oct. 24 at...

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Pope Leo XIV to Name St. John Henry Newman a Patron Saint of Catholic Education

The Holy Father will designate Newman as an official co-patron saint of education, together with St. Thomas Aquinas.

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.