Between a Special Report, Today, and the 3rd Hour of Today, NBC pulled out all the stops Monday in its coverage on the death of Pope Francis, unsurprisingly heralding him as a man of the people in the left’s sense of the term for being pro-LGBTQ, “brought the Catholic Church…away from the culture wars and back to Christ’s basic message,” and waged “clashes…with…conservative members” in favor of a “plainspoken manner.”
It all started during an NBC News Special Report in the 6:00 a.m. Eastern hour as longtime religion correspondent Anne Thompson said Francis’s legacy will be his “mercy and compassion,” adding:
Moments later, co-host Savannah Guthrie remarked to National Catholic Reporter’s Christopher White that “in some ways, Pope Francis was a reformer and clashed with more conservative members of — of the clerical order…
