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Pope Leo XIV meets with US Vice President JD Vance, on May 19, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media/Vatican Pool - Corbis/Getty Images)

The VP is the worst cafeteria Catholic

Mary Elizabeth Williams
US President Donald Trump holds up a bible in front of boarded up St John's Episcopal church after walking across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

New pope was critical of Trump admin

Alex Galbraith
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump: Catholics "loved" AI pope pic

Alex Galbraith
Cardinals in Vatican City (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images)

A business plan for electing a pope

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump arrive for a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

While in Rome, Trump sees the light

Sophia Tesfaye
Bowen Yang attends the Vulture Festival Presented By AT&T - Milk Studios, Day 1 at Milk Studios on May 19, 2018 in New York City. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Vulture Festival)

Yang calls Vance "Pope killer" on "View"

Alex Galbraith
Pope Francis presides over the celebration of the Second Vespers of the solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unit, in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Pope Francis dead at 88

Natalie Chandler, Nicholas Liu
Pope Francis holds his homily during the weekly General Audience at the Paul VI Hall on January 17, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope corrects Vance, rebukes Trump

Nicholas Liu
Pope Francis waves to the faithful during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square on June 12, 2024, in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope scolds Vatican staff for gossiping

Ashlie D. Stevens
Pope Francis holds his homily during the weekly General Audience at the Paul VI Hall on January 17, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope Francis: Fund food, not war

Michael La Corte
Pope Francis holds his homily during the weekly General Audience at the Paul VI Hall on January 17, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope Francis calls Harris, Trump "evils"

Griffin Eckstein
Pope Francis waves to the faithful during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square on June 12, 2024, in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope Francis brings comedians to Vatican

Griffin Eckstein
Pope Francis leaves a mass on World Children's Day at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on May 26, 2024. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)

Vatican sorry for Pope Francis gay slur

Nardos Haile
Pope Francis presides over the Pentecost Sunday Mass at St. Peter's Basilicao n May 19, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope rejects "conservative" Catholicism

Charles R. Davis
Pope Francis presides over the celebration of the Second Vespers of the solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unit, in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Is surrogacy really unethical?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pope Francis waves to the faithful during his weekly General Audience at the Paul VI Hall on January 17, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope on sexual pleasure: "Gift from God"

Gabriella Ferrigine
Pope Francis delivers his Angelus blessing on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 08, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope approves blessing same-sex couples

Joy Saha
Whoopi Goldberg attends the opening night gala of Metropolitan Opera's "Dead Man Walking" at Lincoln Center on September 26, 2023 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Whoopi Goldberg meets Pope Francis

Nardos Haile
Pope Francis leads the celebration of the second vespers on the occasion of the the solemnity of the conversion of St. Paul at St. Paul's Basilica on January 25, 2023 in Rome, Italy. (Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why pope says being gay "isn't a crime"

Steven P. Millies - The Conversation
Church of St. Francis of Assisi commemorates the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI displaying his portrait picture with a black ribbon, on January 04, 2023 in Krakow, Poland. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pope Benedict: Troubled leader, no saint

Celia Viggo Wexler
Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives to celebrate an extraordinary Jubilee Audience for workers and volunteers of mercy, including nuns of the Missionary of Charity, the religious family founded by Mother Teresa in St. Peter's Square. (Salon/Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Holy bodies, holy hungers

Rebecca Lauren
Christopher Columbus monument close to Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain (Getty Images/hutchyb)

Forget Columbus — the church was worse

Celia Viggo Wexler
Pope Francis, Sayyed Abu al-Qasim al-Dibaji and Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt at Rome's Colosseum for an International Meeting for Peace with leaders of various religions and confessions in Rome, Italy. (Stefano Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

The pope in Saudi Arabia? It's possible

Mohammad Ali Salih
Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives to celebrate an extraordinary Jubilee Audience for workers and volunteers of mercy, included nuns of the Missionary of Charity, the religious family founded by Mother Teresa in St. Peter's Square. The canonization of Mother Teresa will be held Sunday in a ceremony to recognize the sainthood of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner who died aged 87 in India in 1997. (Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Holy bodies, holy hungers

Rebecca Lauren
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