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Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 108 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull thelettersfromleo.com

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from thelettersfromleo.com, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.thelettersfromleo.com&size=20"open it →

RSS Subscribe in any reader

The same articles as an RSS 2.0 feed. Works in Feedly, Inoreader, Thunderbird — anywhere.

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JSON Feed For apps

JSON Feed 1.1, the same content in a format apps parse natively.

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Trimmed For agents

Only the fields an agent needs — title, url, date, language — so the response stays small.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.thelettersfromleo.com&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics headlines come back as JSON.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.thelettersfromleo.com&size=5"
108
articles indexed
37
in the last 30 days
1
median per day
1
languages
196 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 06.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 74 days. The busiest hour is 02:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-08: 2 articles2026-06-09: 1 articles2026-06-10: 2 articles2026-06-12: 2 articles2026-06-13: 1 articles2026-06-15: 1 articles2026-06-16: 1 articles2026-06-18: 1 articles2026-06-19: 1 articles2026-06-20: 3 articles2026-06-21: 2 articles2026-06-22: 2 articles2026-06-23: 2 articles2026-06-24: 1 articles2026-06-26: 1 articles2026-06-27: 1 articles2026-06-28: 1 articles2026-06-29: 2 articles2026-06-30: 3 articles2026-07-01: 2 articles2026-07-02: 2 articles2026-07-03: 2 articles2026-07-04: 2 articles2026-07-05: 1 articles2026-07-06: 1 articles2026-07-07: 1 articles2026-07-08: 1 articles2026-07-11: 1 articles2026-07-12: 1 articles2026-07-13: 1 articles2026-07-14: 1 articles2026-07-15: 1 articles2026-07-17: 1 articles2026-07-19: 1 articles2026-07-20: 2 articles2026-07-21: 2 articles2026-07-22: 1 articles2026-07-23: 1 articles2026-07-24: 2 articles2026-07-25: 2 articles2026-07-26: 2 articles2026-07-28: 1 articles2026-07-29: 2 articles2026-07-31: 2 articles2026-08-01: 2 articles2026-08-02: 1 articles2026-08-05: 1 articles2026-08-06: 1 articles2026-08-07: 2 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-11: 2 articles2026-08-13: 1 articles2026-08-14: 2 articles2026-08-15: 1 articles2026-08-17: 1 articles2026-08-18: 2 articles2026-08-19: 1 articles2026-08-20: 1 articles2026-08-21: 1 articles2026-08-22: 1 articles2026-08-23: 1 articles2026-08-24: 1 articles2026-08-25: 1 articles2026-08-26: 1 articles2026-08-28: 2 articles2026-08-29: 2 articles2026-08-30: 1 articles2026-08-31: 1 articles2026-09-01: 2 articles2026-09-02: 2 articles2026-09-03: 2 articles2026-09-04: 3 articles2026-09-05: 1 articles2026-09-06: 2 articles06-0806-2307-0607-2208-0708-2309-0509-06

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.thelettersfromleo.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 108 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

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Mon: 14MonTue: 19TueWed: 15WedThu: 9ThuFri: 21FriSat: 17SatSun: 14Sun

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish109100.9%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Are We Seeking Converts or Punishing Heretics?
2026-09-06 14:25 UTC · Christopher Hale
Pope Francis said the Church has always stood between two ways of thinking, fearing to lose the saved or wanting to save the lost. Today’s Gospel chooses the second, but
Pope Leo’s Cardinal in Naples Writes Foreword to Book About Transgender Catholics
2026-09-06 02:19 UTC · Christopher Hale
Another step toward LGBT inclusion: the last cardinal Pope Francis ever made put his name on an Italian book, translated by Outreach this week. A year of Leo XIV’s choice
A Philadelphia Nun Sits With Unaccompanied Children at Texas Deportation Hearings
2026-09-05 22:31 UTC · Christopher Hale
Sister Rose Kuhn drives to the Harlingen immigration court every week to pray beside children who face a judge alone, some as young as four.
“He Has to Call Me” — Pope Leo Will Take Trump’s Call, Louis Prevost Tells Piers Morgan
2026-09-04 23:00 UTC · Christopher Hale
The pope’s brother gave Morgan seventeen minutes on the eve of the Fourth that the national and Catholic press slept through. Eight things we learned, from a papal birthd
“Even the Nuns Are Mad” — Indianapolis Archbishop Excuses Catholics From Mass as ICE Surges Into Indiana
2026-09-04 18:48 UTC · Christopher Hale
Archbishop Charles Thompson’s decree covers anyone who “reasonably fear[s] being detained,” legal status or not, through Sept. 30. From Bridgeport to Blue Ash, the Church
“We Cannot Remain as Unengaged Spectators” — Pope Leo XIV Calls Catholics Into Public Life Two Months Before America Vot
2026-09-04 02:13 UTC · Christopher Hale
In St. Peter’s Square, the pope told believers to carry the burdens of those “crushed by injustice, discrimination, and violence.” The midterms are 61 days away, and this
Pope Francis Accused Opus Dei and Allies of ‘Mafia-Like’ Tactics in Bombshell Letters
2026-09-03 22:06 UTC · Christopher Hale
El País printed two letters, from 2023 and 2024, in which Francis told Bishop Ángel Pérez Pueyo his intervention against Opus Dei was “total.” On Saturday the Virgin of T
MAGA Attacks Pope Leo XIV After He Prays For Clean Water
2026-09-03 00:00 UTC · Christopher Hale
Tom Woods and Deacon Nick Donnelly led the pile-on after the pope asked Catholics to pray for 2.1 billion people without safe water. At Wednesday’s audience, Leo answered
“There Are No Unsacred Places” — Wendell Berry Dies at 92 on the Eve of the Season of Creation
2026-09-02 20:04 UTC · Christopher Hale
He died Monday at his farm above the Kentucky River, hours before Pope Leo XIV opened the season with a Mass at Castel Gandolfo. The Baptist farmer spent six decades read
As Trump Guts Climate Rules, Pope Leo XIV Declares “It Is Not Yet Too Late” to Save Creation
2026-09-02 02:00 UTC · Christopher Hale
The pope’s message quotes Benedict XVI, whom Newsweek called “the green pope” in 2008. Washington spent August paying $1.2 billion to cancel wind farms and opening 44 mil
Vance Defends Trump’s Mockery of Christ After Warning of the Golden Calf
2026-09-01 22:10 UTC · Christopher Hale
In an interview posted Monday, the vice president says he feels “darkness” in meetings with world leaders and calls a chatbot that flatters its users “satanic.” The one i
I Love This Church. I Love This Country. And I Refuse to Give Up on Either.
2026-09-01 02:00 UTC · Christopher Hale
Sixty-three days before the first nationwide election of Leo’s pontificate, here is what this movement exists to do. I’m asking you to join us for the stretch run.
Under Pope Leo XIV, Vatican Moves Dorothy Day Closer to Sainthood
2026-08-31 20:47 UTC · Christopher Hale
Rome has accepted the first piece of Day’s canonization file; the full brief arrives by December. The radical whose kitchen helped birth the DSA may rise to sainthood und
A Good Christian Is a Good Shortstop
2026-08-30 23:25 UTC · Christopher Hale
Peter falls from rock of the Church to stumbling block in five verses, and Jeremiah accuses God of duping him. When God hits the ball the other way, the whole game is whe
Turning the Other Cheek Is Not for “Losers” — Pope Leo XIV’s Message From a Boat on Lake Albano
2026-08-29 21:21 UTC · Christopher Hale
He is the first pope in four centuries at Castel Gandolfo to carry the Madonna across the water himself. The word he put in the cynics’ mouths is the one Donald Trump rea
The African Saint Who Made an American Pope and an American Civil Rights Hero
2026-08-29 03:58 UTC · Christopher Hale
Martin Luther King Jr. marched on Washington on Augustine’s feast. Leo XIV called himself Augustine’s son from the loggia. Both men, like the saint, were made by their mo
Pope Leo XIV to the World’s Governments: Stop Entrusting Human Lives to Artificial Intelligence
2026-08-28 22:27 UTC · Christopher Hale
In Friday’s address, Leo asked whether humanity risks becoming “victim of its own inventions” — his second AI warning in a week. His homework assignment is to humanize th
After Bishops Defy His Anti-Vaccine Campaign, Florida AG Compares Catholic Schools to “Sharia Law”
2026-08-28 00:52 UTC · Christopher Hale
James Uthmeier’s threat puts scholarship money for 95,000 Catholic school students on the line. The bishops answered with four Supreme Court cases and a vow that they “wi

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.thelettersfromleo.com&from=now-7d&size=100"

To poll for new material, keep the timestamp of the newest article you saw and ask only for what came after it:

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.thelettersfromleo.com&from=now-1h&sort=date_asc"

Article bodies come with full_text=true. No key, no quota tier, no header — see the search endpoint for every parameter.

Metadata quality

How well Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

100%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
0%
articles with sections
213 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 196 min at the median, 604 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 108 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics publish per day?

1 on a median day, measured across 74 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.