For Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show, CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed “Chaplain of the Colbert Nation” Father James Martin to discuss Pope Leo XIV. Both men agreed that one positive thing Leo brings to the papacy is that him being American will force President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to confront their immigration beliefs, with Colbert ultimately declaring, “He’ll go Inquisition on you. He’ll go Torquemada on you, baby.”
Colbert wondered, “One of the things—he had a press availability the other day, and as he was leaving, a reporter asked, ‘Do you have a message for America?’ He said ‘many.’… I'm not asking you to read the pope's mind, but reading the papal tea leaves here, what do you imagine, based upon what he has taught before and spoken about before, his message might be to those of us in the Church in America?”
Martin began by declaring, “Well, he’ll preach the Gospel in season and out, and that includes standing up for the poor. As you said earlier, he took Leo as a nod to Leo XIII who was the pope and started Catholic social teaching: standing up for workers, the migrants, the poor. He talks specifically about being with people who suffer, but again, you got to remember, he was working with people who were poor in Peru, so I think he's also going to be very strong on migrants and refugees.”
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. Nick Kangadis
. Nick Kangadis
. Nick Kangadis
