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Hannity Joins The Crusade Against the Catholic Church
April 17, 2026
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There’s nothing he won’t do for his Dear Leader: Fox News host Sean Hannity dedicated a portion of his Thursday show to deliver a message to Pope Leo XIV, suggesting he and others at the Vatican had “totally lost sight of the true meaning of the bible and its teachings.” Hannity first discussed his own background with Catholicism, explaining the factors that led to his break with the church, before later turning on the pope himself.
“While I am a Christian, I left the Catholic Church in large part because of institutionalized corruption, and it was at the parish level, to the bishop level, cardinals, all the way to Rome,” he said. He continued: Hannity then pivoted to Trump’s words “I want him to preach the gospel, I’m all about the gospel,” he said. “But I also know you cannot let a certain country, which is a very mean-spirited country, have a nuclear weapon. If they did, they would use it, and I think they’d use it quickly, and they would kill many millions of people. So, the pope can disagree, but certainly we are allowed to have that.” Hannity responded to the president’s words with a blunt assessment. “The president is correct, the pope is wrong on so many levels,” he said. “Perhaps his judgment is clouded.” He’s clearly just a Trump cultist at this point worshiping at the feet of his Dear Leader and doing his job as an apologist for anything he says. But it seems to me that as a conservative
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