Letters from Leo is a chronicle of how Pope Leo XIV’s papacy intersects with American politics, faith, and the digital age during the presidency of Donald Trump.
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Kelsey Reinhardt says no donor pressured Zeale and Ambassador Burch never intervened. Her statement confirms the donor talks, the Burch meeting, and a review process aimed at the topic of Israel.
Edward Weisenburger stands among Pope Francis’s last American appointments, blessed at Pope Leo’s first pallium Mass. On Tuesday, with swastikas in Dearborn’s streets, the choice explained itself.
David Friedman, Trump’s ambassador to Israel from 2017 to 2021, told the pope he was damaging his credibility — and addressed him as “Your eminence,” a cardinal’s honorific.
Pope Francis said that God does not resist when he is prayed to. Today’s Gospel puts a mother outside the boundary and lets her prove it, one refusal at a time.
Johnson has built a movement that’s trying to live forever through science, and he says he has done more against death in two years than Jesus managed in two thousand. Leo answered him Saturday.
About eighty nuns make up more than a third of the residents at Wartburg in Mount Vernon, New York. Their final years are giving the Church one more lesson in gratitude, care, and Christian witness.
The actor told Jimmy Fallon that meeting the pope was like writing an Oscar speech — and that Leo made him laugh. From Harry Styles to Patti Smith, secular America keeps arriving at the American pope’s door.
Sister Mary Jo Sobieck threw the first pitch and every fan got a mitre. And I’m told a meeting between Pope Leo XIV and Barack Obama — the club’s two most famous fans — is moving closer.
Fifteen new consultors to the Vatican’s religious-life office include sisters who want women’s ordination on the table. With the synod’s 2027 assemblies approaching, the pope’s guest list is the story
Trump rewrote the childhood vaccine schedule, Florida is threatening Catholic schools, and the Senate wants Fauci jailed. Before he was pope, Leo XIV fought for vaccines, oxygen, and to save lives.
Pope Leo XIV said this morning that the Lord’s presence changes everything. Peter’s faith gave out a few steps from the boat, and what carried him is the virtue we neglect most.
Michael Harrington founded the DSA three decades after Dorothy Day put him to work on Chrystie Street. Bishop Barron has spent a year attacking a movement his own church helped raise.
