Posted on 04/15/2026 3:50:39 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pro-life leader Kristan Hawkins has criticized three U.S. cardinals for their interview on “60 Minutes” for failing to speak up about abortion.
Hawkins, the president of Students for Life, responded to a clip from CBS’ “60 Minutes” TV interview with Cardinals Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, Blase Cupich of Chicago, and Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C.
She wrote: “I don’t seem to recall three Bishops doing a lengthy interview with 60 Minutes to denounce President Biden’s policies that unleashed unrestricted chemical abortion pills into every state and killed over 700,000 children made in God’s image last year alone.”
During the interview, the three cardinals focused on issues that are favored by leftists, including allowing mass immigration into the U.S. and condemning military operations, while steering clear of abortion, euthanasia, and the impact of unbridled immigration on tens of millions of economically vulnerable American families and hundreds of thousands of trafficked migrants, including children.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton offered a similar critique about the bishops’ failing to address abortion. He wrote: “America kills about 1,000,000 unborn human beings a year through abortion and yet three leading cardinals go on 60 Minutes to promote left-wing talking points on Trump, the illegal immigration invasion, etc.”
Throughout the interview, President Trump was clearly in the crosshairs of the three U.S. prelates while they repeatedly propped up the “first American Pope.”
Newsmax host Todd Starnes suggested that the appearance of the cardinals was part of a coordinated effort with the Vatican to attack President Trump.
“Last week David Axelrod, Obama’s former senior advisor and a longtime Democrat strategist, met with Pope Leo XIV. Days later, Pope Leo is attacking Trump and three cardinals appeared on 60 Minutes to attack the president,” said Starnes.
“I don’t believe in coincidences. This is nothing more than a coordinated attack on the president of the United States by the Vatican,” he noted. “And quite frankly, it is both distasteful and un-Christian.”
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Three things Pope Leo, Cardinal Cupich and Obama have in common: Chicago.
Ping
When President Trump states Pope Leo is “weak on crime,” he’s talking about how the Vatican and its media pals are concealing the drug smuggling and human trafficking conspiracy they entered into with Joe Biden and his cartel associates.
Cardinal Robert McElroy is an evil man disguised as a Catholic cardinal. Here are the unreported facts—except by me—about his crime of conspiracy as indicated in the Grok assessment I requested of how much government assistance his San Diego diocese pulled in during the four years of the Biden administration when he was the bishop of San Diego.
Excellent post!!!
My eyes have been clearly opened for some time!!!
The Catholic Church has been co-opted, and corrupted!
It’s not merely sad, IT’S SICK!
An exorcism is needed, because some serious sin is roaming through the Vatican!
The best part is watching leftwing atheists who have never had anything but scorn and derision for the sacred, suddenly pretending they care what these three minions have to say. Anyway, not to worry too much, most Catholics don’t pay attention to them.
Bingo.
Many years ago, I had a serious problem with the Church for several years, nearly 10. I always felt that I never left the Catholic Church, but that it left me.
I prayed every day, and every night, that I might return, for YEARS!
I always prayed. I always have. It is my silent way of petitioning my Lord and Savior. Can He hear me from the depths of my soul? I always hope He could. After all, He is God.
Many years after I stopped going to Mass, I realized what I was always taught by my nuns…that the priest offering the Sacrifice of the Mass is only a stand-in/proxy for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who is at the same time the High Priest and the the Sacrifice.
I returned, and I’m so grateful for His Loving Mercy. He has graciously welcomed me back, the Prodigal Daughter.
The Catholic hierarchy is filled with fallen humans, and this Pope, IMHO, has lost his moral compass. He needs to go to confession and repent. He is no less a sinner than I am. Because he has a lot of responsibility, more is expected of him. He should know that by now.
V
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