Articles by Hannah Brockhaus
Pope Leo XIV: There’s no template for synodality across all countries
Oct 25, 2025 / 12:00 pmPope Leo XIV spoke about synodality during the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies Oct. 24–26, part of the Church’s Jubilee of Hope in 2025.
Pope Leo XIV to John Paul II Institute: Your mission is to speak and live the truth
Oct 24, 2025 / 13:44 pm“Your specific mission concerns the search for and common witness to the truth,” Pope Leo XIV said Oct. 24 at the Vatican.
Pope Leo XIV to name St. John Henry Newman a patron saint of Catholic education
Oct 22, 2025 / 09:07 amThe Holy Father will designate Newman as an official co-patron saint of education, together with St. Thomas Aquinas.
Pope Leo XIV meets clergy abuse survivors at Vatican
Oct 20, 2025 / 12:21 pmFour victims and two advocates from Ending Clergy Abuse had an hourlong conversation with Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 20.
Pope Leo XIV appoints Boston auxiliary Mark O’Connell to lead Diocese of Albany, New York
Oct 20, 2025 / 09:44 amPope Leo XIV on Monday named Bishop Mark O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop of Boston, the next bishop of the Diocese of Albany, New York.
Pope Leo XIV to grieving father: ‘Death never has the last word’
Oct 17, 2025 / 13:38 pmThe pontiff penned a letter to Francesco, a father of four, who wrote to the Holy Father about the death 18 years ago of his 12-year-old son, Domenico Maria.
Pope Leo XIV appoints Cardinal Schönborn’s successor to lead the Archdiocese of Vienna
Oct 17, 2025 / 06:02 amPope Leo XIV has appointed Father Josef Grünwidl to succeed Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, OP, as head of the Archdiocese of Vienna, Austria.
Catholic nonprofit’s global religious freedom report to be released Oct. 21
Oct 16, 2025 / 07:00 amInternational Catholic nonprofit Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will release its religious freedom report on Oct. 21 in Rome.
Vatican appoints judges to decide Rupnik sexual abuse case
Oct 13, 2025 / 12:23 pmThe judges, appointed Oct. 9, do not hold any position in the Roman Curia to ensure their autonomy and independence in the penal judicial procedure.
Pope Leo XIV addresses immigration policies in meeting with Chicago labor leaders
Oct 9, 2025 / 12:25 pmPope Leo XIV addressed immigration and respect for vulnerable migrants in a meeting with Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and labor leaders at the Vatican.
Pope Leo XIV commends Catholic Charities USA’s ministry to migrants, refugees
Oct 9, 2025 / 09:12 amPope Leo XIV sent a letter commending Catholic Charities USA for being “agents of hope” to vulnerable people, especially migrants and refugees.
Pope Leo XIV, in his first major document, says the poor evangelize us
Oct 9, 2025 / 06:01 amPope Leo XIV, in first apostolic exhortation, “Dilexi Te,” writes that the Church, if it wants to belong to Christ, must give the poor a privileged place.
UPDATE: Pope Leo XIV recalls Palestinians killed since Oct. 7 Hamas attack
Oct 7, 2025 / 11:58 amAddressing a group of journalists just outside his Castel Gandolfo residence, Villa Barberini, on Oct. 7, the pope said: “Two years ago it was a terroristic attack.”
Pope Leo thanks Knights of Columbus for generosity to Vatican, service to communities
Oct 6, 2025 / 12:24 pmPope Leo XIV also expressed his “profound gratitude” for the Knights of Columbus’ funding of restorations in St. Peter’s Basilica completed last year.
Pope Leo XIV allows outside banks to manage Holy See investments
Oct 6, 2025 / 09:35 amPope Leo XIV issued “Coniuncta Cura” to allow the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See to use banks outside the Vatican for investments.
Swiss Guards, protectors of the pope, don new uniforms
Oct 3, 2025 / 10:00 amThe 135 Swiss Guards will don the new uniforms for the first time at a dinner the night before the Oct. 4 ceremony to swear in this year’s recruits.
Pope Leo XIV, Arnold Schwarzenegger promote care for the earth at climate conference
Oct 1, 2025 / 14:05 pm“We are one family, with one Father, who makes the sun to rise and sends rain on everyone,” Pope Leo said Oct. 1 at a conference center in Castel Gandolfo, Italy.
Pope Leo XIV restores custom of Christmas Day Mass
Sep 30, 2025 / 12:26 pmThe Vatican has announced Pope Leo’s Mass schedule for Nov. 1 through the end of the Christmas season in January 2026.
Catholics must respond to AI threat to authentic, human communication, Vatican says
Sep 29, 2025 / 10:50 amThe pope’s choice of theme for the 60th World Day of Social Communications 2026, published Monday, is “Preserving Human Voices and Faces.”
Vatican struggles against spread of ‘deepfake’ images of Pope Leo XIV
Sep 25, 2025 / 09:57 amThe Vatican communications team said it has reported hundreds of accounts, mostly on YouTube, posting deepfakes of Pope Leo XIV.