Source: USA Today
by Rex Huppke
“Is it just me, or does it seem like Pope Leo XIV won’t stop talking about religion? He’s all ‘the Gospel says this’ and ‘Jesus taught us that’ – dude, we get it, you’re head of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church. But does that really make you an expert? As our Catholic Vice President JD Vance, who has a book coming out on his conversion to Catholicism, said, ‘I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.’ Exactly. Vance has been a Catholic since 2019, the year Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, so I’d take his warning seriously, Pope. He’s seven years deep into the Catholic faith – you don’t wanna mess with him. He’s part of the new Catholicism, the one that’s afraid to say ‘transubstantiation’ because it sounds woke and has ‘trans’ in it.” (04/15/26)