Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

JD Vance Twice Tells Pope Leo XIV to Stay Out of American Politics

A stunning reversal for a Republican Party that once raged at JFK for promising to keep his Catholicism out of the White House — eight weeks before Vance publishes a book on his Catholic conversion.

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Christopher Hale
Apr 15, 2026
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