Hannah Brockhaus

Rome

Rome Correspondent and Writer at Catholic News Agency

I write for @CNAlive / @EWTNews from Rome covering the #Vatican & #PopeLeoXIV // My love language is used books // Mrs. to an Italian civil servant // Mom to L

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Italian government leads participants in Catholic Church’s jubilee this weekend

1 week ago | catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Carl Olson

Italian government leads participants in Catholic Church’s jubilee this weekend By Hannah Brockhaus for CNA Pope Leo greets pilgrims during the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents, and the Elderly on Sunday, June 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 20, 2025 / 13:11 pm (CNA). Members of Italy’s local and national governments will be the main participants in events for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of Government Leaders on June 21–22, part of the wider Jubilee of Hope.
Castel Gandolfo: Pope Leo XIV to resume papal summer vacation tradition in lakeside town

1 week ago | catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Carl Olson

Vatican City, Apr 3, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- The Vatican Secretary of State said Friday that he hoped churches closed because of the coronavirus crisis would be reopened “as soon as possible.”In an interview published on the Vatican News website April 3, Cardinal Pietro Parolin also said he was disturbed by reports of Catholics dying without the Sacrament of the Sick and expressed concern about the disease’s impact on impoverished countries.
Rome’s priests look for leadership from their new bishop, Pope Leo XIV

2 weeks ago | catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Nick Olszyk

Pope Leo XIV meets with priests of Rome in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Thursday, June 12, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 12, 2025 / 09:22 am (CNA). The priests of Rome met for the first time on Thursday with their new bishop, Pope Leo XIV, to whom they are looking for greater leadership and fatherly care after several years of administrative disruption.
After LA immigration raids, Archbishop Gomez calls for 'restraint'

3 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Hannah Brockhaus |Gerry Jackson

Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez called for “restraint and calm” following immigration sweeps in downtown LA on June 6 that resulted in at least 44 arrests. Reports showed that federal immigration authorities and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted operations in multiple locations, including at multiple Home Depot locations and the downtown LA fashion district.
Archbishop Gallagher in Cuba for 90th anniversary of Holy See diplomatic ties

3 weeks ago | catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Carl Olson

Archbishop Gallagher in Cuba for 90th anniversary of Holy See diplomatic ties By Hannah Brockhaus for CNA Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s secretary for relations with states, meets with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on June 5, 2025, in Cuba. / Credit: Vatican Secretariat of StateVatican City, Jun 6, 2025 / 11:53 am (CNA).
Archbishop Gallagher in Cuba for 90th anniversary of diplomatic ties

3 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Kate Scanlon |Gerry Jackson |Cindy Wooden

The Vatican’s foreign minister is in Havana this week, where he met with local Catholics and political authorities during a visit marking 90 years of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Holy See.
Irish teens create animated Lego-Carlo Acutis film

3 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Sarah Mac Donald |Kate Scanlon |Hannah Brockhaus |Gerry Jackson

In rural Limerick, three teenage brothers are turning Lego into a tool for evangelization as Blessed Carlo Acutis continues to inspire a new generation of digital evangelists. In the small rural parish of Kilcornan in Irish Limerick County, the boys have produced a professional and instructive stop-motion animation film about the millennial saint. "We wanted to reach people of our own age," 16-year-old Louis Flynn explained to OSV News. "Carlo really inspired all three of us.
Pope names priest to lead Louisiana’s Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux

3 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Kate Scanlon |Carol Glatz

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday named Uganda-born Father Simon Peter Engurait, a former business analyst who became a priest at age 41, to lead the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in southeastern Louisiana. The 53-year-old priest, ordained for the diocese in 2013, has acted as diocesan administrator since the death of Bishop Mario Dorsonville in January 2024.
Al Pacino, 'The Ritual' and crowd-pleasing exorcism tropes

3 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Joseph Joyce |Tom Hoffarth |Hannah Brockhaus

When you critique film for an archdiocesan magazine, exorcism movies are something of an occupational hazard. They simply come with the territory, like splinters for lumberjacks or celibacy for aspiring screenwriters. “The Ritual,” in theaters June 6, will be my third in as many years (with several others left unreviewed out of editorial exhaustion). Fortunately if you miss one of them, you can simply see any other to catch up.
Q&A with David Freyer, LA’s children’s doctor turned permanent deacon

3 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |Hannah Brockhaus |Carol Glatz

Dr. David Freyer has already found tremendous fulfillment since joining Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in 2008 as a pediatric oncologist, serving as the director of its Survivorship and Supportive Care Program, as well as work with patients at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. But his on-call status is about to widen. Freyer is one of 18 candidates who have completed formation and will be ordained permanent deacons for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Saturday, June 7.