Articles by Hannah Brockhaus
Pope Leo XIV supports ‘important and urgent’ Creation Day Sept. 1
Sep 1, 2025 / 13:00 pmPope Leo XIV has voiced his support for the Sept. 1 celebration of the World Day of Prayer for Creation, an ecumenical initiative encouraged by Pope Francis.
Pope Leo XIV meets Father James Martin at the Vatican
Sep 1, 2025 / 06:00 amFather James Martin, who is in Rome to lead a Jubilee pilgrimage for his LGBTQ ministry, Outreach, also had one-on-one audiences with Pope Francis twice.
Pope Leo prays for Minneapolis school shooting victims, laments ‘pandemic of arms’
Aug 31, 2025 / 07:10 amPope Leo XIV prayed for the victims of a shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis and the children who die around the world from gun violence.
Andrea Bocelli, Pharrell Williams to direct Vatican concert for human fraternity
Aug 29, 2025 / 11:51 amThe Sept. 13 concert, which is free and open to the public, will also include a drone light show and talks on themes including peace, justice, food, freedom, and humanity.
Pope Leo XIV: ‘Christian hope is not evasion, but decision’
Aug 27, 2025 / 09:00 amAddressing thousands of pilgrims in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 27 emphasized Jesus’ embrace of suffering.
Pope Leo XIV transfers Detroit auxiliary bishop to San Antonio Archdiocese
Aug 26, 2025 / 09:45 amBishop José Arturo Cepeda returns to San Antonio, where he served as a priest from his ordination in 1996 until his consecration as an auxiliary bishop for Detroit in 2011.
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.”