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 Sean Winters (of National Catholic Reporter) lashed out at conservatives and told them to search their souls and change their politics.
“Can you talk a little bit about you know, what the task at hand is for this pope when it comes to unity and or reforming?” asked co-host Brianna Keilar.
Winters argued that it was “very clear” that the Cardinals had elected Leo to “land the plane” of Francis’s reforms:
So, I mean, the cardinals were very clear in choosing…
