A new pope has entered the Vatican, and SNL played it very coy. There was no “Da Pope” sketch, nor have they chosen a cast member to play Pope Leo. Are they having their own conclave? Nonetheless, our new American Pope still got goofed on during Weekend Update, after a brief mention from James Austin Johnson’s Trump during the opening monologue. “As an American Catholic, I could not be more proud, which is a sin, and now I’m ashamed,” Colin Jost began. “You can tell he’s from the South Side [of Chicago] because he’s got his hands up.” It wasn’t long before Jost mentioned another religious man from Chicago, joking, “This pick was a welcome surprise for me because when I heard the pope was a super-religious guy from Chicago in a funny robe, I was worried it was Kanye.” He concluded the segment by reminding everyone that there’s no real “woke Pope,” sorry PopeCrave: “I also love that conservatives are already complaining this pope is too woke. How woke can a 69-year-old man from Chicago be? It’s not like he came out and was like, ‘Hey, I’m Pope Leo XIV, he/him.’ The reality is there are no woke Catholics. If you’re a woke Catholic, you’re just not a Catholic anymore.”
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But that didn’t stop Weekend Update from inaugurating Pope Leo into the mix.
