Tucker Carlson on Sean Hannity: “It does take a kind of cable news mentality to say of the pope, hey, you ever read the Bible? It's hilarious.”
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From the April 15, 2026, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): I want to end with probably the most mocked and yet clearest evangelist of this new faith, this Israelism. You could say it's Christianity without the New Testament. And that would be someone, again, who's often made fun of for being dumb, or he doesn't know what he's talking about.
But it's sometimes people like that that give you the clearest picture of what the people in power really are talking about. And that person would be Sean Hannity, over at Fox News. Not a bad guy, not a mean guy, lifelong Catholic. If you asked him, are you Catholic? Absolutely, yeah, I'm a Catholic, and, and he, and I think he is. It's not an attack or even a claim to understand his personal religious faith. But watch Sean Hannity, cradle Catholic, describe the pope. This is his reaction to the president of the United States attacking the pope, head of the Catholic Church. And here's Sean Hannity's response as a Catholic to that. Watch.
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So it, it does take a kind of cable news mentality to say of the pope, hey, you ever read the Bible? I mean, it's hilarious. Hey, thing about the pope is, guy's never read the Bible.
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Being a Christian probably doesn't necessarily mean you oppose all violence in all circumstances. Maybe it should, but in practice, it doesn't. But this pope is just saying something pretty conventional like that. Nothing crazy, actually. No name calling. No great departure from Christian theology or ethics as as people have understood it for thousands of years.
And the response is, hey. You haven't read the bible?