Sitemap - 2026 - Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics
Pope Leo Said He Wasn’t Afraid of the Trump Administration. Neither Should We Be.
‘Citizen of the World’ — Elise Ann Allen’s Historic Biography of Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV Buries Donald Trump in New Polling
Trump Border Czar Tom Homan Mockingly Invites Pope Leo XIV on an ICE Raid
What I Saw — And Felt — At Pope Francis’s Funeral
We’re Called to Be Channels — Not Filters
“Not Overtly Confessional” — Pope Leo XIV’s Indictment of Christian Political Performance
As Trump Revives Firing Squads, Pope Leo XIV Salutes Efforts to End Death Penalty
Report: Trump Administration Is Spying on Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican
“I Cannot Be in Favor of War” — Pope Leo XIV's Wide-Ranging In-Flight Press Conference From Africa
“Ravaged by Tyrants” — Pope Leo XIV's Africa Journey and the End of the ‘Quiet’ Papacy
“God Never Abandons You” — Pope Leo XIV in Rainsoaked Bata Prison Visit
One Year Later, We Are Still Pope Francis’s Legacy
“Disrespectful and Violent” — Bishop Rodríguez Rebukes Trump From Mar-a-Lago’s Diocese
Are Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us?
The Parents of Minab School Children Killed in US Bombing Write to Pope Leo XIV
“In the One, We Are One” — A Letter to My Conservative Catholic Friends
Pope Leo XIV Is Not Fighting Donald Trump — The President Is Fighting Him
“He’s a Saint” — Francis’s Last Word on Pope Leo XIV
“I’m Uniquely Qualified” — Sean Hannity Lectures Pope Leo XIV on the Bible
Pope Leo XIV Will Outlast Donald Trump — and Why We Will Defeat MAGA Anti-Catholicism
“Ravaged by a Handful of Tyrants” — Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon
After Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago
Trump Administration Strips Catholic Charities of $11 Million After Attacking Pope Leo XIV
“Something Called the Just War Doctrine” — Speaker Johnson Lectures Pope Leo XIV on Augustine
U.S. Bishops’ Doctrine Committee Rebukes JD Vance After He Lectures Pope Leo XIV on Theology
JD Vance Twice Tells Pope Leo XIV to Stay Out of American Politics
Today, the Church Fought Back Against Donald Trump
“I Am Not Afraid” — Pope Leo XIV Responds to Trump’s Tirade Against the Church
Trump Attacks Pope Leo XIV: “If I Wasn't in the White House, Leo Wouldn't Be in the Vatican”
“We’re Better Than This” — Pope Leo XIV’s Top Three US Cardinals on 60 Minutes
“Enough of War” — Pope Leo XIV Denounces the “Delusion of Omnipotence” at St. Peter's Prayer Vigil
“Very Bad Form” — What Six Independent Reports Tell Us About the Pentagon’s Meeting With the Vatican
Pope Leo XIV Says Christians Never Side With Those Who Launch Bombs
“I'll Support You” — The Sentence That Undid JD Vance's Catholic Conscience on Iran
There Will Be No Second Avignon: Americans Stand With Pope Leo XIV
The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
Trump Backs Down Hours After Pope Leo XIV Called His Iran Threat “Unacceptable”
Pope Leo XIV Teared Up for Francis — and Gave Us a Glimpse of the Bond That Made Him Pope
While Trump Promises Hell on Earth, Pope Leo XIV Preaches Peace
“Lay Down Your Weapons!” — Pope Leo XIV Decries War in First Easter Address
A Letter to New Catholics Entering the Church Tonight
Something Strange is Happening
Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?
Trump-Vance White House Escalates Holy Week Assault Against Catholic Church
“Not Sponsored by the Lord” — Military Archbishop Broglio Declares Iran War Unjust
The Eucharist Isn’t A Prize for the Perfect
Pope Leo XIV Condemns the “Imperialist Occupation of the World” in Holy Thursday Homilies
Bishop Barron Rewrites Pope Leo’s Anti-War Message on Ben Shapiro’s Show
“You Rose Up” — Leaked Video Shows Bishop Barron Clapping as Trump Was Compared to Christ
“A Lion Who Knows When to Roar” — Christopher Lamb’s Revelatory Portrait of Pope Leo XIV
The Promise Peter Could Not Keep
“Look For An Off Ramp” — Pope Leo XIV Implores Trump to End War by Easter
JD Vance, Rebuked by Two Popes, Publishes a Book About Finding God
The Forgotten Hero of Christ’s Passion
Rocca Is Right: Abortion Isn’t the Top Issue for the Catholic Church Anymore
White House Rejects Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday Rebuke — Sparking a MAGA Meltdown
“A Grave Precedent” — Israel Bars Cardinal Pizzaballa from Palm Sunday Mass at the Holy Sepulchre
“Your Hands Are Full of Blood” — Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday Message to Warmakers
“The Small Make History” — Pope Leo XIV Tells Monaco’s Billionaires to Reject War and Greed
What Our Silence Is Costing Us
Pope Leo XIV’s Secretary of State Says Trump’s War Violates Catholic Teaching
A Late Night Letter From My Heart
Trump’s War Is Destroying the MAGA Catholic Coalition
Romero Was Killed Mid-Mass. His Story Isn’t Over.
“Hatred Is Increasing” — Inside Pope Leo XIV’s 25-Day Campaign Against the Iran War
Pope Leo XIV Says Aerial Bombings Should Be Banned Forever
Christianity Is Not a Solo Act
“A Scandal for Humanity” — Pope Leo XIV Escalates Ceasefire Demand as Trump Boasts of Obliteration
The Powerful Have Always Preferred Their Prophets Dead
Trump Rejects Pope Leo XIV's Ceasefire Call in Iran: “We’re Obliterating Iran”
Fighting A Battle You Know You’ll Lose
My KQED Interview: Catholics Can No Longer Accommodate Trump
The Saint Who Never Spoke A Word
Pope Leo XIV Calls for Universal Healthcare as 4 Million Americans Lose Coverage
“Put an End to It” — Pope Leo XIV’s Secretary of State Tells Trump to End Iran War
“The Gravest Sin” — Pope Leo XIV’s Middle East Envoy Rebukes Hegseth for Invoking God in Iran War
Amid Trump-Vance ICE Raids, Hicks Defends Immigrants at NYC St. Patrick’s Day Mass
Before He Was a Saint, Patrick Was an Immigrant
DEADLINE TODAY: Letters from Leo Bracket Pool
Pope Leo XIV Warns Media Against Becoming War Propagandists
Pope Leo Meets Opus Dei Investigator Gareth Gore in Rare Vatican Audience
Realities Are Greater Than Ideas
JD Vance’s Top Donor Brings His War on the Pope to Rome
“God Cannot Be Enlisted in Darkness” — Pope Leo XIV Demands Ceasefire in Iran
Did the Pope Conspire to Kill Abraham Lincoln?
God Isn’t Moved By Our Performance Art
The Kingdom of God Is Here, But Not Fully
“Go to Confession” — Pope Leo XIV Challenges Christian Leaders Behind War
The Night the Church Changed Forever
Pete Hegseth’s Pastor Wants to Ban Catholic Processions in America
Pope Leo XIV Takes On Mar-a-Lago Face, Looksmaxxing, and America’s “Cult of the Body”
The Loophole We Keep Looking For in the Gospel
“A True Shepherd” — Pope Leo XIV Honors the Priest Israel Killed in Southern Lebanon
Pope Leo XIV Tells Rome’s Priests: No AI Homilies, No TikTok Priesthood
Cardinal McElroy Declares the War in Iran “Not Morally Legitimate” — And He's Not Alone
The Gospel Will Never Poll Well
Pope Leo XIV Mourns Maronite Priest Killed by Israeli Tank Fire in Southern Lebanon
Pope Leo XIV and Stephen Colbert Are the Only Things Americans Actually Like
Living Water for a Doom-Scrolling Nation
“It’s Sickening” — Cardinal Cupich Blasts White House for Gamifying War
“Weapons Must Fall Silent” — Pope Leo XIV Again Demands Peace in Iran
Pope Leo XIV Sends His Best Diplomat to America
God Never Tires of Forgiving Us
“No War Is Holy” — Hegseth, the Pentagon, and America’s Unchristian Crusade in Iran
Pope Leo XIV Sees What America Won’t Admit
Pope Francis Never Talked About Poverty
Vance Says He Never Apologized to Cardinal Dolan. Dolan Says He Did
Obama Wants to Meet Pope Leo XIV — And He May Get There Before Trump
Pope Leo XIV Criticizes Trump’s Iran War for the Third Time in Three Days
Jesus Dismantles Washington’s Favorite Religion
We Measure Everything Except Mercy
Pope Leo XIV Called for Peace. MAGA Called Him a Marxist.
Christianity Isn’t Spa Therapy
“Violence Is Never the Right Choice” — Pope Leo XIV Laments “War Again” In Middle East
‘Stop the Spiral of Violence’ — Pope Leo XIV Demands End to Trump’s Iran War
The Gospel Has No Asterisk for Geopolitics
U.S. Bishops Take On Trump At the Supreme Court: “Protect God-Given Human Dignity”
My Fellow Catholics, It Is Time to Choose
Trump’s Border Czar Says He’ll “Educate” Pope Leo XIV on Catholic Teaching
You Cannot Call God “Our Father” While Rejecting His Children
Catholic Bishops Warn Trump: Mass Deportations “Detrimental to Human Rights”
The Most Ignored Gospel Story in Modern Christianity
Far Right Ideology Is Spain’s Biggest Threat, Pope Leo Tells Bishops
The Temptation of the Authoritarian in the Desert
Jesus Calls Forth the Broken and the Excluded
JD Vance Admitted to Cardinal Dolan He Lied About Church Profiting on Migrant Work
In Another Break With Trump, Pope Leo Skips U.S. 250th Celebration for Migrant Island
Pope Leo: The World Is in Ashes — But We Are Not Meant to Stay There
Lent Is the Hour to Redeem America’s Soul
Pope Leo: Health Care Is a Universal Right, Not a Privilege
Pope Leo Rejects Trump’s Gaza “Peace Board” Invitation
Bishop Barron’s Latest MAGA Crusade Sparks Vatican Alarm
Tyrants’ Kingdoms Are Crumbling. God’s Isn’t.
Flanked by Altar Girls, Pope Leo XIV Preaches Peace in Ostia Parish
Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon’s Conspirators in the Plot to Take Down Pope Francis
Here’s What Pope Leo Wants You to Give Up for Lent
“Nothing Less Than an Apology” — U.S. Bishops Blast Trump’s Racist Obama Post
My Interview with Vox: How Pope Leo Is Reinvigorating the Catholic Left
Two American Catholics Stole the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Q&A: Fr. James Martin on Failure, Faith, and Finding God at Work
Epstein Emailed About Getting Pope Francis a “Massage” During His 2015 U.S. Visit
When the World Darkens, We Are Called to Glow
Springsteen Meets New Jersey Bishop After Anti-ICE Anthem Hits No. 1
“Not a Country Club” — Archbishop Hicks Ushers in New Era in New York
Epstein and Bannon Plotted to “Take Down” Pope Francis
Speaker Johnson Denounces Pope Leo’s Call to Welcome Migrants
Pope Leo to Trump: Hands Off Cuba, Choose Dialogue Over Invasion
God Is Using the Weak To Shame the Strong
Under Pope Leo XIV, American Catholics Are Uniting to Defeat MAGA Authoritarianism
Arkansas Bishop Compares Trump’s America to Nazi Germany
“A Profound Moral Failure” — Cardinal McElroy Leads Outcry After Trump-Vance ICE Killings
Pope Leo’s Top Deputy: Trump-Vance ICE Killings in Minneapolis Are An Affront to God
Pope Leo’s Hometown Cardinal: Reject the White House Lies About Pretti’s Killing
Priest Defends Alex Pretti’s Character: “Remember His Kindness, Ignore the Smears”
Bishop Barron Silent Again After ICE Kills Catholic in His Own Backyard
Pope Leo’s Top U.S. Ally Says ‘No’ to Funding ICE
In This Tyranny, Christ Is Calling Us Ashore to a New Life
American Catholics Must Stand Up to This Dictatorship of Lies
“I Was Getting a Haircut” — Harry Styles Explains His Papal Conclave Cameo
Under Pope Leo, Pro-Lifers Are Rejecting JD Vance
John Allen Kept the Faith By Listening To Whole Church
Trump’s Israel Ambassador Attacks Pope Leo’s Gaza Envoy, Sparks Rare Catholic Unity
MAILBAG: Will JD Vance Get the Boot — and Did I Cheat at Confirmation?
Conservative Military Archbishop Says Catholic Troops Can Defy Trump Orders on Greenland
Black Lives Matter Is a Deeply Christian Claim
Backed by Pope Leo, U.S. Cardinals Rebuke Trump’s Greenland Gambit
Pope Leo XIV Tears Up Comforting Families of Swiss Bar Fire Victims
Prophets Of A Future Not Our Own
“Don’t Trust the Hygiene” — MAGA Catholic Brags About Refusing the Eucharist from Indian Woman
Bishop Barron Goes Full MAGA: A Silence and a Scandal Behind His Rightward Shift
The Inaugural Letters from Leo Mailbag
In Anti-Catholic Operation, Trump-Vance ICE Targets Minnesota Parish
Pope Leo: “God Doesn’t Watch from Afar — He Steps Into Our Suffering”
The Only Thing More Original Than Original Sin
Pope Leo to Rome’s Youth: “We Are Made for In Life Encounters, Not Virtual Connections”
War ‘Back in Vogue’: Pope Leo’s Stark State of the World Address
Two Popes Rebuked Him. JD Vance Still Keeps Mocking the Church.
My Interview with Crux: Restoring the Catholic Left in American Politics
“I Confessed Everything Short of Murder” — Pope Leo’s MAGA Brother Bares All
Every Catholic Must Resign from ICE — Today
Pope Leo: Vatican II Is the Church’s “Guiding Star” as Cardinals Meet — Latin Mass Hopes Deferred
Why the Catholic Church Condemned Jan. 6
Resist Tyrants, Welcome Strangers, Reject War, Serve the Poor: Pope Leo’s Epiphany Mandate
Trump’s Vatican Ambassador Misrepresents Pope Leo’s Venezuela Remarks to Defend U.S. Military Action
What the Magi Teach Us About Resisting Tyrants Today
“Venezuela Must Remain Independent” — Pope Leo Pushes Back Against Trump’s Plan to “Run Venezuela”
Silent on Trump’s ICE Raids, Bishop Barron Blasts New NYC Mayor’s Speech
Pope Leo XIV Ousts Traditionalist Priest After Anti-Gay Slur Caught on Open Mic
Pope Leo Rejects ‘Armed Peace,’ Calls for Security Rooted in Mercy
Pope Leo: Welcome Strangers — Stop Using God to Justify War
I Love This Church. I Love This Country. And I Refuse to Give Up on Either.