Articles by Hannah Brockhaus
Pope Leo XIV speaks to 1 million youth at jubilee: ‘Stay with us, Lord’
Aug 2, 2025 / 18:15 pmThe pontiff was greeted Aug. 2 by joyous crowds on the 237-acre grounds of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, 10 miles east of Rome.
Start of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate brings surge of interest in papal blessings
Jul 31, 2025 / 10:41 amThe surge in blessings reflects enthusiasm over the start of a new pontificate and highlights a traditional practice that combines devotion with fundraising for charitable works.
Vatican permits exclusively private devotion for alleged apparitions at Italian mountain
Jul 29, 2025 / 10:47 amSant’Onofrio is a mountain in the southern Italian region of Molise. Since 2009, Michelino Marcovecchio has claimed to receive visions and messages of the Virgin Mary.
How Pope Leo XIV can influence the Catholic Church’s new social media missionaries
Jul 28, 2025 / 13:09 pmThe Vatican is welcoming more than a thousand social media influencers to Rome this week for an event intended to shape a new generation of Catholic missionaries.
UPDATE: Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati’s incorrupt body to be in Rome for Jubilee of Youth
Jul 25, 2025 / 14:23 pmThe coffin holding the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee of Youth July 26 through Aug. 4.
Tribute or travesty? Dolce & Gabbana stages Catholic-vestment-inspired fashion show
Jul 24, 2025 / 12:05 pmThe Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana put a spotlight on a new design collection inspired by Catholic liturgical garb in a show on the Sant’Angelo Bridge in Rome last week.
Pope Leo XIV marks moon landing anniversary with call to U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin
Jul 21, 2025 / 06:30 amPope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing with a video call to U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Pope Leo XIV cheers on charity soccer match for children from war zones
Jul 16, 2025 / 10:30 amPope Leo XIV encouraged encounter and unity in a message to the players and spectators of a soccer game to support sick and injured children from war zones.
Pope Leo XIV greeted by international crowd at first Angelus from Castel Gandolfo
Jul 13, 2025 / 10:05 amPope Leo XIV prayed the Angelus on Sunday, July 13, from Castel Gandolfo, where he is taking a two-week summer break.
Pope Leo XIV appoints Iowa priest to lead mission diocese of Baker, Oregon
Jul 10, 2025 / 12:30 pmPope Leo XIV has tapped Father Thomas Hennen, vicar general of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, to be the next bishop of Baker, a mission diocese in eastern Oregon.
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for creation with Latin prayers in Castel Gandolfo gardens
Jul 9, 2025 / 14:03 pm“We should pray for the conversion of many people, in and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for creation,” the pope said.
Vatican’s synod office postpones reports on controversial issues
Jul 7, 2025 / 13:15 pmThe Vatican’s synod office has said that final reports from Synod on Synodality study groups have been postponed until the end of the year.
Pope Leo XIV moves to the ‘second Vatican City,’ Castel Gandolfo
Jul 5, 2025 / 08:30 amThe pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of July 20.
Vatican hopes new Mass prayers will renew care for God’s creation
Jul 3, 2025 / 12:18 pmThe “Mass for the Care of Creation,” inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, has prayers and Mass readings designed “to ask God for the ability to care for creation.”
Vatican downplays leaked documents on Latin Mass
Jul 3, 2025 / 09:15 amA Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appear to cast doubt on Pope Francis’ rationale for restricting the Latin Mass.
Cardinal Ambongo: Opposition to same-sex blessings not an ‘African exception’
Jul 1, 2025 / 14:47 pm“The position taken by Africa was also the position of so many bishops here in Europe. It’s not just an African exception,” Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo said.
Pope Leo XIV to bestow pallium on these 8 U.S. archbishops
Jun 27, 2025 / 06:00 amPope Leo XIV will impose the pallia at a Mass for the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 29.
Pope Leo XIV: Pope Francis’ legacy of synodality is a style, attitude
Jun 26, 2025 / 12:55 pmThe pope addressed the synod’s 16th ordinary council at its offices just outside the Vatican, where members are meeting June 26–27.
Assisted suicide bill a ‘watershed’ in the devaluing of life, English archbishop says
Jun 26, 2025 / 10:30 am“I think we’ve crossed a watershed, that fundamental line in the sand that a life is always to be protected,” Archbishop John Sherrington told EWTN News.
Pope Leo XIV calls bishops to be ‘firm and decisive’ in dealing with abuse
Jun 25, 2025 / 11:24 amSpeaking to over 400 bishops from 38 countries in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope also emphasized the importance of poverty and synodality in the ministry of a bishop.