Hannah Brockhaus, Author at Crux

Pope urges Macron to strengthen France’s Christian roots
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- May 17, 2017
“I pray that God support you so that your country, faithful to the rich diversity of its moral traditions and its spiritual heritage marked also by the Christian tradition, may always endeavor to build a more just and fraternal society,” Pope Francis wrote in a letter to newly elected French President Emanuel Macron.
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Join me at the feet of Mary, Francis asks ahead of Fatima trip
- Catholic News Agency, Pope in Fatima, Vatican
- May 11, 2017
“I need to feel your closeness, whether physical or spiritual; the important thing is that it come from the heart. In this way, I can arrange my bouquet of flowers, my ‘golden rose,’” Pope Francis said to the people of Portugal in a video message ahead of his Fatima visit.
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Kidnapped Indian priest pleads for help in new video
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- May 9, 2017
Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil spoke on another video on YouTube asking for help in order to be released. Uzhunnalil was kidnapped in March 2016 and in December of that year he appealed to Pope Francis asking “as a father, please take care of my life,” in an unauthenticated video.
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Pope to future Romanian priests: seminary is your ‘gym’ for ministry

After myriad difficulties the Church in Romania has faced, it is now experiencing a “beautiful rebirth,” Pope Francis said, with new challenges to face. But “this story, made of great witnesses of faith and moments of trial, of severe winters and of flourishing springs, belongs to you,” he said.

Pope urges Vatican communications to go digital amid ongoing reform

Pope Francis told the members of the Secretariat for Communications to make use of “the media that the new digital cultural context makes available to our contemporaries,” and he added that this reform must be done “with intelligence, meekness, but also…” the pope said “with a bit of ‘violence.”

Pope thanks charity for generous service to the Church

The pope thanked the U.S.-based Papal Foundation charity for their “desire to assist the Church’s efforts to proclaim that message of hope to the ends of the earth and to work for the spiritual and material advancement of our brothers and sisters throughout the world, especially in developing countries.”