Fox News host Sean Hannity dedicated a segment 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.

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    12 days ago

    You wanna hear something that’ll absolutely destroy whatever little faith in humanity you may have left?

    Oh, my friend, I’ve met modern slaves and child brides. Faith in humanity ceased to be a whole category of emotion I can hold onto decades ago.

    “Because his name was John the Baptist, not John the Catholic!”

    The real irony is that this is a running joke from non-Baptist sects, but Baptists sometimes buy into it, and not to drag this down a pedantic road, but there is a whole thing about Baptists claiming some unbroken line of baptism as a practice back to JtB.