CBS Remembers ‘Inclusive’ Pope Francis By Touting Clashes With Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 21, 2025
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The death of Pope Francis provided the liberals of CBS News ample opportunity to boast about the liberal polices the pontiff promoted while also giving them a foil against President Trump’s staunch stance against illegal immigration. In their break-in and CBS Mornings newscast, the network spent a lot of their Monday morning boasting about how Francis “try[ed] to make the Catholic Church more inclusive” and stood in opposition to Trump.

CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell was brought on repeatedly since she had been the first American broadcast journalist to interview Pope Francis. It was during their breaking news bulletin that O’Donnell first proclaimed that Francis “had changed the tune but not the lyrics of the church;” a line that would become tired and played out because of how many times she and the rest of the cast uttered it (eight times).

“In other words, a lot of church doctrine did not change, but he did try to make the Catholic Church more inclusive, whether it was his message about gays or sex unions to while he is not allowing women to become priests or deacons, he did appoint two women to a high offices within the Vatican managerial offices. That is a step forward,” she touted.

CBC Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil took enjoyment in how Francis made “changes to refocus the church on different part of the Catholic experience” and “distressed” conservatives in the process.

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