Fox News Pundit Names 1 Holy Reason For New Pope’s ‘Potshots’ At Trump Administration

Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo on Thursday explained why the newly named, U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV has criticized the Trump administration’s policies over the years, particularly the president’s stances on immigration.

“Look, all popes are going to support migrants, support the poor, support peace. Their heart goes out to humanity, that’s with the job. Jesus would do the same,” Arroyo told Fox News’ Will Cain, who had asked how Pope Leo XIV’s “vision” for the Roman Catholic Church could compare to Pope Francis.

Arroyo — a host on the Catholic-focused Eternal Word Television Network — also weighed in on the new pope taking “potshots” at Vice President JD Vance on social media. In February, after he reshared an op-ed that said the vice president was wrong for ranking his “love” for others.

The pontiff has also reshared posts signaling his opposition to President Donald Trump’s bans on refugee admissions in 2017. Most recently, he reshared a post knocking Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s response to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly sent to a Salvadoran prison.

The new pope has already taken heat from right-wing media figures, much like Francis did in his years leading the church.

Sean Hannity claimed the new pope has perhaps been “indoctrinated into the liberal way of thinking” for not seeing anything “remotely Christian” about warehousing immigrant children in cages, Media Matters for America noted.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) also slammed him for using what Santorum called “buzzwords of the left.”

Earlier in the program, Cain noted that the papacy isn’t a “political office,” so it may be “inappropriate” to ask whether the new pope is liberal or conservative.

“But is he progressive in the vein of Pope Francis? That seems to be the great question,” said Cain, adding that the new pope’s stance on issues ranging from climate change to diversity, equity and inclusion will raise questions over the “new vision” of the church.

Arroyo noted that the pontiff’s appearance with a traditional mozzetta on Tuesday is a “cry back to the past” and made traditionalists as well as conservatives feel as if he was “dressing like a pope.”

“We frankly haven’t seen this in 12 years with Pope Francis. So, maybe Leo will be as he mentioned in his speech today, a bridge-builder,” he said.

H/T: Mediaite