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When Popes Demonstrate They're Savvy About the Secular Press
The recent passing of his Holiness Pope Francis and the looming election of a successor has, already, launched a media frenzy.
Ode to Joe: MSNBC Remembers Pope Francis By Gushing Over Biden
Anchoring from the Vatican for her Friday show ahead of Pope Francis’s Saturday funeral, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing was not just content to portray Francis as a pope of the people; she had to mix in former President Joe Biden as well by praising his “empathy” and love of Amtrak. The fact that Francis would rebuke Biden for his abortion beliefs, to her, just made their relationship even better.
Pompous CBS Seems to Use Pope’s Passing to Make Subtle Jab at Trump
Reporting live Thursday from the Vatican ahead of Saturday’s funeral mass for Pope Francis, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson ended the show with a veiled hit on President Trump as a contrast to Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders as the former (using the catch-all phrase “American politics”) embraces “flash and hubris” while the other show humility and love.
PolitiFact Uses Pope Francis's Death To Defend Its Existence
PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders is still decrying Meta Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to break up with the fact-checking companies, so, on Thursday, she wrote an article using the death of Pope Francis to argue he supported their work.
NYT A1: Pope Pushed Against ‘Xenophobia,’ Aided ‘Demonized Migrants'
Jason Horowitz, the New York Times’ Rome bureau chief and passionate fan of the late Pope Francis (he loved to cast opponents of the late pontiff’s political proclamations into the outer darkness as “archconservatives” or “ultraconservatives”) made Wednesday’s front page off-lead slot with another story to accompany his official obituary for Pope Francis: “As Ears Closed, Pope…
'Most Entertaining Member of Congress': Kimmel Fawns Over Crockett
On Tuesday, it was ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s turn to be the late night comedian who fawned over his Democratic guest.
Ruhle Seeks to 'Juxtapose' Francis With 'Anti-Immigrant Movement'
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.
NewsBusters Podcast: Pro-Francis Media Had No 'God's Rottweiler' Obits
Since the 1980s, in the hearty middle of Pope John Paul the Great’s leadership, we’ve been writing about how the secular liberal media reports on the Catholic church. If it helps the Left, it's happy news. If it opposes the Left, it's a horrible obstruction.
NY Times Hails Pope's 'Inclusion' vs. 'Doctrinaire' Conservatism
After Pope Francis died Monday morning, the New York Times started rolling out tributes to the pontiff at nytimes.com, plus a standard 7,000-word obituary by Jason Horowitz and Jim Yardley, current and former Rome bureau chiefs for the Times. Horowitz adored Francis as pontiff, and predictably hailed the left’s favorite pope as a force for “inclusion” against “doctrinaire”…
ABC Boasts: Pope Francis Bashed Conservatives, ‘Embraced Controversy’
ABC’s Good Morning America made Pope Francis into one of their own — a cultural progressive — on Monday by boasting “he often clashed with conservatives” over his “compassion for the LGBTQ community” and “wave of optimism” for everyone from immigrants to the poor to even Palestinians. And, of course, they made it about themselves too.
NBC: Pro-Gay Pope Francis Moved Catholics ‘Away from the Culture Wars’
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...…
Gaia's Patron Saint? TIME Praises Lefty Pontiff As ‘The Climate Pope’
Apparently the recently deceased Pope Francis is the patron saint of "Mother Earth." At least that’s what the climate Armageddon-obsessed TIME magazine is trying to argue.
CBS's Drag Queen Trio Equates Catholicism With 'Brain Rot'
Some people might be inclined to roll their eyes whenever someone says, “Imagine if they said that about Islam,” but such a hypothetical was warranted on Thursday’s edition of After Midnight on CBS. Host Taylor Tomlinson welcomed a trio of drag queens to her late night “comedy” game show to equate Catholicism with “brain rot” and exchange other bits of anti-Catholic and anti-Christian…
CNN: 'Devout Catholic' Biden's Faith Led Him to Death Row Commutations
In a segment on Biden's commutation of the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners, CNN's Rachel Solomon calls Biden a "devout Catholic" and suggests his faith played a role in his decision. Dem aide Hyma Moore claimed that Biden cares deeply about his faith, and that led him to this decision. No mention of why that faith doesn't extend to protecting the lives of utterly innocent, unborn…
