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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed the election of Robert Prevost as the first American pope, and the subsequent complaints from some conservatives that the Chicago native is somehow “woke.”
Colin Jost began by admitting that, as a Catholic, he “could not be more proud.”
“Whichis a sin, and now I’m ashamed,” he joked.
“The Vatican has selectedCardinal Robert Francis Prevostfrom the south side of Chicagoto be the new pope,” Jost continued, as a photograph showed on screen of Pope Leo XIV waving at the crowd in St. Peter’s Square after his ascension Thursday.“You can tell he’s from the southside because he’s got his handsup.”
Jost later turned to MAGA sphere complaints about the new pope having criticized Donald Trump, JD Vance, and the administration’s hardline immigration approach.
“I also love that conservativesare already complaining thatthis pope is too woke.How woke can a 69-year-old manfrom Chicago be?” he said. “It’s not like he came out andwas like, ‘Hey, I’m Pope Leo XIV,he/him.’”
“The reality is there are no wokecatholics,” Jost added.“If you’re a woke Catholic,you’re just not Catholicanymore.”
Later in the segment, co-anchor Michael Che riffed on Donald Trump wanting to reopen the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay in order to “house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”
“President Trump said he wasinterested in reopening Alcatrazbecause it represents something‘horrible and beautiful andstrong and miserable and weak,’” Che quoted–“which are also his nicknames forhis five children.”
