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Pope Leo XIV greets a woman in the crowd during his pastoral visit to the Republic of San Marino on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026. Sammarinese and Vatican flags line the field behind him. (Vatican Media)SubscribeMake A One-Time Gift to Support My WorkSan Marino

Pope Leo XIV greets Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., during a bipartisan congressional delegation's visit to the Vatican in August 2026. Khanna came home recommending Magnifica Humanitas by name on Fox Business. (Office of Rep. Ro Khanna)SubscribeMake A One-Time

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Pope Leo XIV embraces Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger after conferring the pallium during Mass for the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul at St. Peter's Basilica on June 29, 2025. It was the first pallium Mass of Leo's pontificate. (Vatican Media)Letters

Pope Leo XIV stands with young Palestinian Christians, who brought a Palestinian flag and keffiyehs to the Vatican in October 2025. Leo has pressed for a ceasefire and a two-state solution since the first Sunday of his pontificate. (Vatican News)Thank you

A Byzantine fresco of the Canaanite woman before Christ. She kneels in the open with her hands raised while the apostles crowd in behind him, and her daughter is the figure thrashing inside the city walls at right - the reason she came, and the reason she

Pope Leo XIV and longevity entrepreneur Bryan Johnson. On the Solemnity of the Assumption, the pope told a congregation at Castel Gandolfo that true beauty lies in revealing the signs of love rather than hiding the signs of age. (Illustration by Letters f

Sister Ruth Murphy, Sister Ellen McGrath and Sister Jane Keegan, from left, gather with fellow residents at the Wartburg home in Mount Vernon, N.Y. About eighty Catholic sisters now live at the Lutheran-founded care center, more than a third of its reside

Pope Leo XIV greets Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, at his general audience in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Aug. 5. Days later the actor told Jimmy Fallon that the pope holds "the moral compass of the world." (Vatican Media)Thank

Fans exchange the sign of peace at the White Sox' Pope Leo XIV night at Rate Field, as imagined in an illustration for Letters from Leo. (Letters from Leo illustration)SubscribeMake A One-Time Gift to Support My WorkThe best thing I saw on the internet th