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 he thinks of abortion and “the LGBTQ community.” Rather than subject MSNBC’s liberal audience to some uncomfortable truths, Lavanga dodged the subject in hilarious fashion by talking about unrelated topics before finally suggesting it is unknown what Leo thinks of those topics.
Cabrera asked, “Claudio, I want to quote from then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, and this is what he has said, “We are often worried about teaching doctrine, but we risk forgetting that our first duty is to communicate the beauty and joy of knowing Jesus.” That was an interview with Vatican News. Claudio, do we know…