Liz Wheeler

When he makes questionable comments.

It actually makes me very grateful to be Catholic, as funny as that sounds.

And the reason why is because the Pope, and this is sometimes hard, I think, for non-Catholics to understand because it is a little bit different in the Protestant world or the Catholic world, but the Pope himself has no authority to unilaterally change Catholic beliefs, Catholic dogma, just with his pastoral comments.

the pope has the ability to speak in two ways pastorally and very rarely infallibly it's called ex cathedra but that requires a very certain set of circumstances and it's not the pope inventing any doctrine it's him acknowledging a doctrine or acknowledging a doctrinal interpretation and that infallibility almost never happened

That distinction, though, is very important over the weekend because his comments about the war were in his pastoral capacity.

He wasn't speaking ex-cathedral.

So Catholics, such as myself, are not required to agree with his political opinions.

And don't get me wrong, I find it very annoying for sure.

I wish the Pope was a wiser leader on matters of politics.

But it also makes me so grateful to be Catholic because...

if he were the leader of a Protestant church, he could actually change the doctrine of what his faithful were to believe based on, you know, a faulty opinion.

And that's not the case with Catholicism.

So as much as I find it very annoying, it doesn't push me away from Catholicism.

It draws me closer because I'm very grateful to God for his church that remains as it always was and always will be despite turmoil in the world or the sins of man.

Hi Glenn.

Listen, it's, it's jarring to hear those two clips juxtaposed together to hear Pam Bondi yesterday and after watching her all day and wishing her well, I wanted her to be successful.

I want the Trump administration to be successful.

My concern with attorney general Pam Bondi was never about her personality, never about her personally, never about her demeanor.

We witnessed something that we knew was true, Glenn, yesterday in the House of Representatives, that Democrats are very bad people.

They're bad faith actors.