Posted on 04/18/2026 2:53:51 AM PDT by daniel1212
Some conservative commentators accused CBS’s "60 Minutes" of airing a segment featuring three "left-wing" cardinals who criticized the Trump administration’s immigration and Iran policies.
Father Gerald Murray and author Robert Royal joined Raymond Arroyo on "The Prayerful Posse" to discuss whether the situation was meant to spark a conflict between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV.
"The three of them are billed as so-called influential, but none of them hold offices in the U.S. Bishops' Conference, and they have never been elected," Royal said.
He compared the group to "The Squad" in U.S. politics, calling them "a very definite and pretty left-wing group of just three."
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Cardinals Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., and Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, speak with "60 Minutes" on April 12, 2026. (CBS/60 Minutes)
During the episode, the cardinals criticized several Trump administration priorities, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the conflict in Iran. Cardinal Joseph Tobin said agents act in a way to "terrify people."
Cardinal Robert McElroy also declared that under the Catholic faith, the fighting in Iran is "not a just war."
... Murray countered those claims, pointing to reports that Iran was close to having enough enriched material for a nuclear weapon...
Arroyo suggested the media framed the conflict to bait the White House into a dispute with the Vatican, which he labeled "pope-a-doping."
"They were trying to get Trump to overreact, and he did," Arroyo said....
Speaking with reporters, Pope Leo said he does not fear the Trump administration or view himself as political.
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Did Trump take the bait?
Trump chewed Dope Leo up and spit him out.
Trump couldn’t be “baited” if he lived up to his station and learned how to control his mouth - as opposed to constantly acting out like a petulent manchild.
The Three Communist Stooges wearing crosses around their necks. Disgusting.
Leftist American media, creating the news as usual.
This Pope’s a Trump hating dick and the last one was a complete moron so irrelevant no matter how you look at it.
They represent the Catholic church, well.
We expect this.
here is Father Gerald Murray’s article on why Iran IS a “just war” according to Catholic doctrine.
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-catholic-case-for-war-with-iran
What have you been living under a rock for the past 30 years?
This is not surprising. The Catholic Church has a long-standing, increasingly vocal tradition of being anti-war, although it traditionally balanced this with a strict “just war theory”. While supporting peace, popes have condemned specific conflicts and the nature of modern warfare for over a century, with recent teachings, particularly under Pope Francis, declaring war a “crime against humanity”.
Pope Pius X pleaded for peace at the outbreak of WWI (1914). Pope John Paul II actively opposed the Iraq War and declared “war is never inevitable, it is always a defeat for humankind”. The church is not being consistent with this theory as it has never realized the application of evil, just it’s existence. Peaceful ways are not always the way to peace and there is evil in the world that reacts as predators for the sheep. And they have to be restrained or destroyed using any means of protection.
wy69
Really??
Is English your second language, comrade?
Where did you grow up?
Pope’s and Bishop’s need to stay in their lane
It is true that the priests in the church are pedophiles? We do not ever hear about that anymore do we? Trash Trump and we get days of news coverage. Glass houses Pope.
As opposed to the drooling idiot who was President before him. He is the President of the most powerful country in the world. He can say whatever the hell he wants to! To anybody he wants to even the Pedo Pope.
Sixty Minutes? Rigging the narrative to their own views?
I’m shocked!! Not...
I bet they didn’t have to look hard to find some Leftist Cardinals...
Pope-a-dope! Love it !😀
That's beside the fact that there are still far too many of us funding the media's propaganda campaign against us with our TV subscriptions.
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