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The ‘SNL’ Weekend Update host joked about the vice president’s attire at the upcoming ceremony.
The cultural moment might seem like Trump’s. But the Catholic Church’s leaders are leading a very different wave.
During his first press conference, the pontiff gave a message that could well have been directed at Donald Trump.
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The new Holy Father’s criticism of both the president and vice president has some right-wing commentators writing him off as “anti-MAGA” and “woke.”
“A lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by the loss of meaning in life,” he said in his first English mass.
To the pastor of one New York City church, who gave a double thumbs up after Thursday evening’s Mass, it seemed the Holy Spirit had delivered the pope he and everybody else needed.
Wealthy American Catholics had been lobbying intensely in Rome in the lead-up to the conclave.
Pope Leo XIV quoted his predecessor by telling the world to “build bridges,” not walls. See the full text of his speech here.
I have never cared about a chimney more in my life.
Tony Dokoupil made the comment as cardinals tried to select a new pope.