5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1230+ words) The pope clearly disagrees. Four months earlier, on May 11, he told a Vatican colloquium on compassion and empathy that the two “are not something additional or optional, but are a call from God to reflect his goodness in our daily…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1409+ words) Cardinal Domenico Battaglia of Naples has written the preface to a new Italian book on transgender people, and Outreach, the LGBTQ Catholic ministry founded by Father James Martin, published the English translation on Thursday. The book, Persone transgender: Scienze, teologie,…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (561+ words) Letters from Leo is not a politics-first newsletter. We ground everything we do here in the faith of the apostles and in the source and summit of that faith, the Sunday Eucharist and its Liturgy of the Word. In today’s…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (872+ words) Pope Leo XIV became the first pope to carry the statue of the Madonna del Lago across Lake Albano by boat on Saturday evening, and he used the homily before the crossing to warn that “hatred and violence bring nothing…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (621+ words) From the outset of this project, I have said consistently that Letters from Leo is not a political-first movement. We are formed in the faith of the apostles, and the Sunday Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian…...