While Americans across the political spectrum celebrated the elevation of an American Cardinal, Robert Prevost to become Pope Leo XIV, liberal journalists took special delight in evidence that the new Pope — just like his predecessor — seems to disagree with the Trump administration on issues like immigration.
Yet Pope Leo’s obvious opposition to same-sex marriage, abortion, and other positions embraced by American liberals received a lot less attention from these same programs.
“As a cardinal, he appeared to criticize both President Trump and Vice President Vance, recently posting the headline, “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others,” NBC’s outgoing anchor Lester Holt announced on Thursday’s Nightly News and again on Friday’s Today show.
“Pope Leo also seems to share a good deal of the kind of driving…
