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.
Before that, however, there is the question of Meacham’s credentials. Ruhle introduced him as “the first canon historian for the Washington National Cathedral,” but the National Cathedral is not Catholic but Episcopalian, and the Episcopalian Church is quite liberal and shrinking.
As it was, Meacham declared, “And that as we went through last week, hearing once again Jesus saying on the night he was handed over to suffering and death, and the words of the right he was, he ordered, commanded us to love one another as I have loved you. And I think that was the guiding star for this pope.”
That led Ruhle to turn to…
