Catholic Church
Lib Catholic on CNN to Conservatives: 'Your Politics Need to Change'
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…
MSNBC Hypes New Pope's 'Rebuke' Of MAGA, Ignore His Criticisms of Libs
After Cardinal Robert Prevost became the first American ever to be elected Pope on Tuesday and took the name Leo XIV, MSNBC’s Katy Tur picked and chose what aspects of his beliefs to amplify and which ones to downplay or ignore. Naturally, for MSNBC, she highlighted his “rebuking” of conservatives and Republicans, but not of liberals and Democrats.
Daily Show Suggests Cardinals Are Abusing Children During Conclave
Comedian Lewis Black swung by Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Thursday to tie the 133 cardinals currently voting in the papal conclave to the Church’s child sexual abuse scandals. Black would also suggest that the cardinals actually support those who commit sex crimes.
Let Priests Lust! CBS Pushes for Pope More ‘Progressive’ Than Francis
The liberal media target the Catholic Church because it’s one of the few global institutions they hadn’t completely bent to their worldview. That’s why, during their vapid coverage of the start of the Conclave that would pick a new pope, CBS Mornings produced an entire segment dedicated to calling for a pope more “progressive” than Pope Francis. They went so far to call for priests to…
CBS Warns an African Pope May Disappoint LGBTQ Activists
Ahead of next week’s papal conclave, Friday’s edition of CBS Evening News was caught in a tough situation. On one hand, being the diversity-conscious liberal show that it is, Africa correspondent Debora Patta lamented Africans are not reflected in the Vatican’s halls of power despite Catholicism growing in the area. On the other, Patta warned that an African pope would not be the pro-…
When Popes Demonstrate They're Savvy About the Secular Press
The recent passing of his Holiness Pope Francis and the looming election of a successor has, already, launched a media frenzy.
Ode to Joe: MSNBC Remembers Pope Francis By Gushing Over Biden
Anchoring from the Vatican for her Friday show ahead of Pope Francis’s Saturday funeral, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing was not just content to portray Francis as a pope of the people; she had to mix in former President Joe Biden as well by praising his “empathy” and love of Amtrak. The fact that Francis would rebuke Biden for his abortion beliefs, to her, just made their relationship even better.
Pompous CBS Seems to Use Pope’s Passing to Make Subtle Jab at Trump
Reporting live Thursday from the Vatican ahead of Saturday’s funeral mass for Pope Francis, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson ended the show with a veiled hit on President Trump as a contrast to Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders as the former (using the catch-all phrase “American politics”) embraces “flash and hubris” while the other show humility and love.
PolitiFact Uses Pope Francis's Death To Defend Its Existence
PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders is still decrying Meta Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to break up with the fact-checking companies, so, on Thursday, she wrote an article using the death of Pope Francis to argue he supported their work.
NYT A1: Pope Pushed Against ‘Xenophobia,’ Aided ‘Demonized Migrants'
Jason Horowitz, the New York Times’ Rome bureau chief and passionate fan of the late Pope Francis (he loved to cast opponents of the late pontiff’s political proclamations into the outer darkness as “archconservatives” or “ultraconservatives”) made Wednesday’s front page off-lead slot with another story to accompany his official obituary for Pope Francis: “As Ears Closed, Pope…
'Most Entertaining Member of Congress': Kimmel Fawns Over Crockett
On Tuesday, it was ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s turn to be the late night comedian who fawned over his Democratic guest.
Ruhle Seeks to 'Juxtapose' Francis With 'Anti-Immigrant Movement'
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle marked the passing of Pope Francis on Monday’s The 11th Hour by welcoming historian Jon Meacham to “juxtapose” how “this anti-immigrant movement has risen up” during Francis’s pontificate.
NewsBusters Podcast: Pro-Francis Media Had No 'God's Rottweiler' Obits
Since the 1980s, in the hearty middle of Pope John Paul the Great’s leadership, we’ve been writing about how the secular liberal media reports on the Catholic church. If it helps the Left, it's happy news. If it opposes the Left, it's a horrible obstruction.
NY Times Hails Pope's 'Inclusion' vs. 'Doctrinaire' Conservatism
After Pope Francis died Monday morning, the New York Times started rolling out tributes to the pontiff at nytimes.com, plus a standard 7,000-word obituary by Jason Horowitz and Jim Yardley, current and former Rome bureau chiefs for the Times. Horowitz adored Francis as pontiff, and predictably hailed the left’s favorite pope as a force for “inclusion” against “doctrinaire”…
