Letters from Leo Publisher. Catholic. 2020 nominee for Congress in rural TN & DNC Delegate. Obama-Biden White House & campaign alum. Pope Leo tweeted me once.
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28 Jun 2025
For the first time ever, the most famous American in the world is not the president or a Hollywood icon or tech billionaire—it’s the Pope.
This is more than a Catholic triumph; it’s a cultural watershed for the United States.
In a society that often equates American influence with might or money or celebrity, now our foremost representative on the global stage is a humble man in a white cassock, preaching love, justice, and mercy.
My full story here: lettersfromleo.substack.com/…
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JD Vance released a new book about his conversion to Catholicism. Here is the irony the book cannot escape.
Vance wrote a memoir to prove his faith is real, central, and hard-won, and those charged with guarding that faith keep telling him, first gently and then plainly, that he has missed its opening demand.
The Gospel does not rank the stranger last. The Church Vance joined exists, in no small part, to insist otherwise — at the border, in the holding cell, in the letter a dying pope wrote about how love is ordered.
He called the book “Communion.”
Communion is also what a Catholic enters when he hands his private judgment over to the body of Christ instead of lecturing that body on where it has gone soft.
Vance gave 304 pages to finding his way back to faith.
The harder road — the one his book keeps approaching and never walks — ends in obedience to a Church that has already told him, through two popes in a single year, where love begins. substack.com/home/post/p-202…
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Christopher Hale retweeted
VP Vance releases new book on faith while in office, "Communion: Finding my way back to faith."
Our panel reacts.
@ChristopherHale
@PYNance
@ChuckRocha
#Vance #Faith #Catholicism #NewBook #reaction
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Christopher Hale retweeted
VP Vance releases new book on faith while in office, "Communion: Finding my way back to faith."
Our panel reacts.
@ChristopherHale
@PYNance
@ChuckRocha
#Vance #Faith #Catholicism #NewBook #reaction
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Vance’s toughest questioning this week came from The View.
Why is that?
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Jun 15
John Prevost, the pope’s older brother, rang from Chicago with a computer problem — because Bob, as the family still calls him, has always been the one who fixes these things.
“John, I’m the pope,” Leo reminded him.
The reply came without a pause: “Oh, sorry pope. My computer is broken.” thelettersfromleo.com/p/john…
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I told CNN’s Audie Cornish that the most important part of JD Vance’s book about his conversion to Catholicism was what wasn’t in it.
In his first week in office, Vance accused Catholic bishops of profiting from migrant resettlement and lectured clergy on the teachings of St. Augustine.
It led Pope Francis to rebuke him in a letter to American bishops — a letter ghostwritten by Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV.
The Church loves its converts.
But a convert who walks in lecturing everyone on how they’re doing it wrong — and gets rebuked by two popes in a single year — is pushing his luck.
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JD Vance released a new book about his conversion to Catholicism. Here is the irony the book cannot escape.
Vance wrote a memoir to prove his faith is real, central, and hard-won, and those charged with guarding that faith keep telling him, first gently and then plainly, that he has missed its opening demand.
The Gospel does not rank the stranger last. The Church Vance joined exists, in no small part, to insist otherwise — at the border, in the holding cell, in the letter a dying pope wrote about how love is ordered.
He called the book “Communion.”
Communion is also what a Catholic enters when he hands his private judgment over to the body of Christ instead of lecturing that body on where it has gone soft.
Vance gave 304 pages to finding his way back to faith.
The harder road — the one his book keeps approaching and never walks — ends in obedience to a Church that has already told him, through two popes in a single year, where love begins. substack.com/home/post/p-202…
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“Enough of the idolatry of money and of self!” — Pope Leo XIV thelettersfromleo.com/p/elon…
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We do!
Blindly supporting the porn star president isn’t the way to achieve it.
EXCLUSIVE: At Zeale for America 250 in La Crosse, Isabel Brown says a religious revival is taking place among Gen Z—and believes young Americans are being called to something greater.
"America needs saints. That is the challenge before us."
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The magisterium of Francis is the magisterium of Leo XIV and, consequentially, the magisterium of the Catholic Church.
CNN’s Audie Cornish?! Are you kidding? You slander a fellow Catholic to a Woke source whose bias and malevolence is palpable, and then virtue signal on X like you are the arbiter of all things Catholic.
Just because you adhere to the Magisterium of Francis, and VP Vance doesn’t?
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Christopher Hale retweeted
I told CNN’s Audie Cornish that the most important part of JD Vance’s book about his conversion to Catholicism was what wasn’t in it.
In his first week in office, Vance accused Catholic bishops of profiting from migrant resettlement and lectured clergy on the teachings of St. Augustine.
It led Pope Francis to rebuke him in a letter to American bishops — a letter ghostwritten by Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV.
The Church loves its converts.
But a convert who walks in lecturing everyone on how they’re doing it wrong — and gets rebuked by two popes in a single year — is pushing his luck.
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Jun 15
JD Vance’s book on his conversion to Catholicism is scheduled to be released tomorrow. I got advance excerpts of it over the weekend.
I wasn’t going to release my thoughts about it until tomorrow morning on CNN, but since the embargo has been broken, I’ll have more to share today.
In short, the Vice President’s egotism shines through.
A recent convert, Vance acts as if he deserves special treatment from Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church.
He does not. He is no better than any of us.
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I told CNN’s Audie Cornish that the most important part of JD Vance’s book about his conversion to Catholicism was what wasn’t in it.
In his first week in office, Vance accused Catholic bishops of profiting from migrant resettlement and lectured clergy on the teachings of St. Augustine.
It led Pope Francis to rebuke him in a letter to American bishops — a letter ghostwritten by Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV.
The Church loves its converts.
But a convert who walks in lecturing everyone on how they’re doing it wrong — and gets rebuked by two popes in a single year — is pushing his luck.
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Putting the Catholic Church in the same category with snake handlers isn’t a great way to secure our vote in 2028.
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JD Vance: "One of the things I love about the American church is there are all of these different pathways to God ... sometimes with snake handlers, sometimes with speaking in tongues, sometimes with a beautiful Catholic mass. But I think all of these pathways really matter."
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NEW: In his 304-page memoir about his conversion to Catholicism, Vice President JD Vance singles out Peter Thiel as one of the men who turned him back to God.
Last fall, Thiel called Pope Leo XIV the “woke American pope” and suggested he was a tool of the Antichrist.
Thiel said he told Vance to pray only for the pope’s health — and to ignore his teaching on moral matters. thelettersfromleo.com/p/two-…
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I told CNN’s Audie Cornish that the most important part of JD Vance’s book about his conversion to Catholicism was what wasn’t in it.
In his first week in office, Vance accused Catholic bishops of profiting from migrant resettlement and lectured clergy on the teachings of St. Augustine.
It led Pope Francis to rebuke him in a letter to American bishops — a letter ghostwritten by Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV.
The Church loves its converts. But a convert who walks in lecturing everyone on how they’re doing it wrong — and gets rebuked by two popes in a single year — is pushing his luck.
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Christopher Hale retweeted
NEW: In his 304-page memoir about his conversion to Catholicism, Vice President JD Vance singles out Peter Thiel as one of the men who turned him back to God.
Last fall, Thiel called Pope Leo XIV the “woke American pope” and suggested he was a tool of the Antichrist.
Thiel said he told Vance to pray only for the pope’s health — and to ignore his teaching on moral matters. thelettersfromleo.com/p/two-…
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If this happens, Zohran Mamdani will likely meet the first U.S.-born pope before Donald Trump.
Jun 14
NEW: A team source tells me the Knicks are interested in going as a team to visit Pope Leo XIV.
If it happens, one has to assume Spike Lee would accompany them.
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NEW: In his 304-page memoir about his conversion to Catholicism, Vice President JD Vance singles out Peter Thiel as one of the men who turned him back to God.
Last fall, Thiel called Pope Leo XIV the “woke American pope” and suggested he was a tool of the Antichrist.
Thiel said he told Vance to pray only for the pope’s health — and to ignore his teaching on moral matters.
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Join Audie Cornish and me tomorrow on CNN as we talk about JD Vance’s new book about his conversion to Catholicism.
Here is the irony the book cannot escape.
Vance wrote a memoir to prove his faith is real, central, and hard-won, and those charged with guarding that faith keep telling him, first gently and then plainly, that he has missed its opening demand.
The Gospel does not rank the stranger last. The Church Vance joined exists, in no small part, to insist otherwise — at the border, in the holding cell, in the letter a dying pope wrote about how love is ordered.
He called the book “Communion.”
Communion is also what a Catholic enters when he hands his private judgment over to the body of Christ instead of lecturing that body on where it has gone soft.
Vance gave 304 pages to finding his way back to faith.
The harder road — the one his book keeps approaching and never walks — ends in obedience to a Church that has already told him, through two popes in a single year, where love begins.
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NEW: In his 304-page memoir about his conversion to Catholicism, Vice President JD Vance singles out Peter Thiel as one of the men who turned him back to God.
Last fall, Thiel called Pope Leo XIV the “woke American pope” and suggested he was a tool of the Antichrist.
Thiel said he told Vance to pray only for the pope’s health — and to ignore his teaching on moral matters. thelettersfromleo.com/p/two-…
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