Catholic Church

On this episode of the NewsBusters podcast, I discusses the liberal media’s reaction to the Trump administration’s wins on the world stage over the weekend and their begrudging admission of hard truths (or something close enough). I also speaks with podcast producer Ben Graham about the media’s continued attempts to claim Pope Leo XIV as theirs (while trying to pit him against the conservative…

After initially bristling at the election of Pope Leo XIV because of his support for traditional marriage, purported “devout Catholic” and staunch racist Sunny Hostin announced that she changed her mind about the pope. She made it clear during the Monday edition of ABC’s The View that her sudden change in position was driven by the pope’s black ancestry, which she repeatedly praised…

In both 2005 and 2013, when Popes Benedict XVI and Francis were elected, American journalists reacted to each Pope’s elevation by complaining about their traditional conservative attitudes while lobbying for the Church to “liberalize” on a host of issues.

Amazing. Over there in Rome the Cardinals of the Catholic Church have, astonishing the world, elected an American. That would be one Cardinal Robert Prevost, elected as the heir to the chair of St. Peter. The Cardinal, born in Chicago, is now Pope Leo XIV. (For those not into Roman numerals, that would be Leo the 14th.)

Every once in a while, HBO’s Bill Maher feels the need to remind people that he is still an intensely anti-religious individual. Friday’s episode of Real Time was one of those occasions, as Maher used the election of a new pope to launch into multiple anti-religious ramblings in order to portray religious people as unintelligent and violent, but it was Maher who relied on…

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour joyfully welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV on Friday as they tried to claim him as one of their own as all hailed him as the anti-Trump figure the country needs, but all also avoided any parts of Leo that might make them uncomfortable.

On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, I’m joined by News Analyst Alex Christy to discuss the liberal media’s covetous reaction to the election of Pope Leo XIV. We breakdown who and which outlets rushed to claim Leo as one of their own, while at the same time trying to downplay and or obfuscate his conservative elements. Yet others were surprised that the leader of the Catholic Church…

While the rest of the liberal media were trying to convince the American public that Pope Leo XIV was one of theirs, the purported Catholics of ABC’s The View were fearful that he would abide by church doctrine. They were upset by the idea that he would continue the church’s understanding that marriage was between a man and woman, while an anti-Catholic voice tried to smear him with…

It’s no secret that the gang at CNN aren’t exactly fans of President Trump’s strict immigration policies. But the election of a new American Pope on Thursday has at least some at the network hoping that Leo XIV will be able to get through to Trump in ways that others could not because — wait for it! — he speaks English.

MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera almost rained on MSNBC’s celebration of the election of Pope Leo XIV. While the rest of the network has celebrated his rebukes of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, Cabrera asked NBC’s man in Rome, Claudio Lavanga, what Leo thinks of abortion and “the LGBTQ community.” Rather than subject MSNBC’s liberal audience to some uncomfortable truths, Lavanga dodged…

Liberal journalists took special delight in evidence that the new Pope seems to disagree with the Trump administration on issues like immigration, yet Pope Leo XIV’s obvious opposition to same-sex marriage, abortion, and other positions embraced by American liberals received a lot less attention from these same programs.

The Thursday editions of the late night comedy shows truly proved that they are simply MSNBC with more jokes. Like that network, they appreciated that the first American pope, the newly elected Leo XIV, has criticized President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on immigration. The fact that he would rebuke their views on abortion, gender, and sexuality were inconvenient things to be…

National Public Radio is in Rome for the just-concluded papal conclave, which elected American Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Before the white smoke appeared, All Things Considered host Scott Detrow interviewed LGBTQ-friendly Fr. James Martin for the occasion, Detrow even led his interview with it, the online transcript bearing the title "Will the next pope…

The Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals made history Thursday by electing the first American pope, Robert Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo XIV. The liberal media celebrated Leo as a pope cut from a similar cloth to Pope Francis, while downplaying the reported Republican streak to his voting history. But during an appearance on CNN News Central, liberal Catholic writer Michael…