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Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV
June, 2025
Your Holiness,
It is too good to be true, and yet it’s true. This could be the catchline for your whole papacy so far.
Consider this: You could have been elected in the middle of the American night, but instead you were elected in the middle of the American school day. A++ to the Holy Spirit. I cannot tell you how much more amazing this made the whole thing – my Sisters teach in all corners of the United States and we have been sharing stories. Children ran through halls with balloons in Texas. They made posters in Phoenix and nearly caused someone to pull a fire alarm (turns out yelling “SMOKE!” is a bit dangerous in this way). The second graders of Sacramento started chanting “U-S-A!” the moment they learned you were an American. And so on and so on. I’m so grateful that instead of being deprived of all of this awesomeness, the American Church was awake, together, and huddled around live feeds.
Holy Father, you don’t know me, but I feel as if I did know you. This is what your life is like now – that phrase times around 1.4 billion. Welcome to life in the Chair of St. Peter where you suddenly belong to all the world.
Continued below.
www.dappledthings.org
June, 2025
Your Holiness,
It is too good to be true, and yet it’s true. This could be the catchline for your whole papacy so far.
Consider this: You could have been elected in the middle of the American night, but instead you were elected in the middle of the American school day. A++ to the Holy Spirit. I cannot tell you how much more amazing this made the whole thing – my Sisters teach in all corners of the United States and we have been sharing stories. Children ran through halls with balloons in Texas. They made posters in Phoenix and nearly caused someone to pull a fire alarm (turns out yelling “SMOKE!” is a bit dangerous in this way). The second graders of Sacramento started chanting “U-S-A!” the moment they learned you were an American. And so on and so on. I’m so grateful that instead of being deprived of all of this awesomeness, the American Church was awake, together, and huddled around live feeds.
Holy Father, you don’t know me, but I feel as if I did know you. This is what your life is like now – that phrase times around 1.4 billion. Welcome to life in the Chair of St. Peter where you suddenly belong to all the world.
Continued below.
An open letter to Pope Leo XIV — Dappled Things
…So, you see, I had an opinion of you 30 minutes after you were elected. It was this: “The Pope,” I said to my students first and then to myself many times in the following days, “has probably been to White Castle.”
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