Articles by Hannah Brockhaus
Cardinal Ladaria: Pastoral care, Church law are not in conflict in marriage cases
Apr 28, 2021 / 06:15 amThe cardinal spoke at a study day devoted to the 2001 instruction Potestas ecclesiae.
Rome’s Center for Child Protection to become Institute of Anthropology
Apr 27, 2021 / 06:00 amThe center was founded in 2012 to provide internet-based training to Catholics anywhere in the world
Pope Francis meets Poor Clare nuns whose monastery was destroyed in 2009 earthquake
Apr 26, 2021 / 11:02 amPope Francis on Monday met with a community of Poor Clare nuns, whose abbess died when the roof of their monastery collapsed in an earthquake in 2009.
Pope Francis to hold consistory in last step before canonization of Bl. Charles de Foucauld
Apr 26, 2021 / 08:00 amThe Ordinary Public Consistory is the last step before the canonizations of seven men and women, including French missionary Bl. Charles de Foucauld.
Vatican cardinal: The Armenian genocide is a ‘stain’ of evil on all humanity
Apr 26, 2021 / 07:00 amCardinal Sandri said the Armenian genocide forces us to confront the great evils committed in human history and the small evils we commit every day.
CDF to hold study day on 2001 instruction for dissolution of marriage ‘in favorem fidei’
Apr 23, 2021 / 12:00 pmThe dissolution of a marriage bond “in favorem fidei” (in favor of the faith) can be approved by the pope on a case-by-case basis.
On Earth Day, Pope Francis says the world is ‘at the limit’
Apr 22, 2021 / 12:00 pmThe pope urged world leaders to “act with courage, operate with justice, and always tell the truth to people.”
Pope Francis hopes Lebanon can regain the ‘strength of the cedars’
Apr 22, 2021 / 08:00 amThe pope expressed the hope in a meeting with Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri.
Vatican dedicates May to global rosary ‘marathon’ for end of COVID-19
Apr 21, 2021 / 14:00 pmThe month-long “prayer marathon” will involve 30 Catholic shrines worldwide
Pope Francis donates ventilators to Colombia after record number of COVID-19 deaths
Apr 21, 2021 / 09:00 amMore than 68,700 people have died from COVID-19 in Colombia since February 2020
Coptic Orthodox Christian executed by ISIS affiliates in Egypt
Apr 21, 2021 / 05:00 amIn a video, 62-year-old Nabil Habashy Salama can be seen being killed by a gunshot
Ex-film director, soccer player to be ordained Catholic priests by Pope Francis on Sunday
Apr 20, 2021 / 08:00 amSamuel Piermarini was offered a chance to sign for A.S. Roma’s youth team but felt a call to the priesthood
Report: Vatican considering sale of London property at heart of financial scandal
Apr 20, 2021 / 07:00 amVatican sources reportedly say that the property is valued at about $369.1 million
Benedict XVI turns 94 years old
Apr 16, 2021 / 10:13 amPope Emeritus Benedict XVI was born 94 years ago today in the town of Marktl, Bavaria. More than eight years after he announced his retirement from the papacy in 2013, Benedict continues to live a retired life in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery on Vatican grounds.
Christian anthropology can renew the West, Vatican foreign minister says
Apr 16, 2021 / 05:38 am"I retain an optimism that leads me to believe that with due commitment we can rise again," Archbishop Paul Gallagher said.
Pope Francis to Brazil's bishops: the Risen Christ is 'our strength, our unity'
Apr 15, 2021 / 12:01 pmPope Francis on Thursday encouraged Brazil’s bishops to be united to each other and to their faith in the risen Christ, who will help them get through the COVID-19 situation in their country.
Cardinal Parolin: ‘War is the antithesis of fraternity’
Apr 15, 2021 / 08:08 amCardinal Parolin said Thursday “the huge sums of money and human resources allocated to armaments make us reflect.”
'What I can do is love': This Catholic sister is a missionary to refugees in Greece
Apr 15, 2021 / 04:00 am"I tell them: I came here to be with you in your situation. When you cry, I will be with you. When you laugh, I will be with you."
Vatican’s saints office says it did not ask for money for beatification
Apr 14, 2021 / 06:10 am“What was said is not true,” the undersecretary of the saints congregation wrote in an April 9 letter to the journalists of an investigative news program.
Pope Francis accepts resignation of Crookston’s Bp Hoeppner after Vatican-ordered investigations
Apr 13, 2021 / 05:15 amHoeppner, 71, was the first U.S. bishop to be investigated under Vos estis lux mundi, Pope Francis’ 2019 norms on investigating bishops accused of mishandling or obstructing allegations of clerical sexual abuse.