Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

The Loneliest Advent of My Life

The idealized Norman Rockwell Christmas — a bourgeois tableau of comfort and consumption — is a distraction. Advent is for the broken, the lost, and the defeated.

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Christopher Hale
Dec 10, 2025
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Letters from Leo offers daily Advent reflections each morning through Christmas exclusively for paid subscribers, exploring what it means to follow Jesus in American civic and political life.

I hope you’ll journey with me as we welcome the light of Christ into every corner of our lives this season.

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