Hosts of the pro-MAGA Real America’s Voice network accused Pope Leo XIV of a “woke turn” after a meeting with Hollywood stars did not include conservatives like Mel Gibson.
“It’s time to stay awake, not woke,” host Terrence Bates noted on Monday. “That is where Pope Leo the 14th just hosted a private meeting with Hollywood A-listers, Spike Lee, Kate Blanchett, Judd Apatow, all there. But noticeably not there: Conservatives like Mel Gibson, Clint Eastwood, Jon Voight, and James Woods.”
“I grew up in Catholic churches,” co-host Gina Loudon explained. “My heart just breaks for the good people I know who are Catholics who have had to endure now two popes in a row, I’ve lost count, is it three popes in a row? All the popes since Pope John Paul essentially have been just— not what the average Catholic that I know believes, right?”
“What in the heck is this guy doing?” she asked. “What a mockery of God’s faithful in the Catholic Church to be worried about getting to rub elbows with Hollywood elite? It sickens me, to be honest.”
“A hundred percent, I agree with everything you said,” co-host David Brody agreed. “Why, just because he’s the pope, I mean, all of a sudden there has to be this reverence because he’s the pope.”
According to Brody, the pope was “doing stuff that’s just not biblical in many ways.”
