'Catholic'Joy Behar worried a "conservative guy" will succeed Pope Francis

The woke brigade on “The View” is at it again, clutching their pearls over the death of Pope Francis and fretting about the Catholic Church possibly—gasp—veering back to its traditional roots. You know, the Catholic Church kind of roots where killing babies is a sin and Jesus isn't gay.

Joy Behar, never one to miss a chance to flog her progressive dogma, had this to say about the late Pontiff’s passing on Tuesday: “I wonder because there might be a backlash against how good he was and how much humility he had compared to some of the leaders in this world right now, so there might be a backlash to it, and they’ll get some conservative guy in there who, you know, is anti-gay and everything else.”

Pope Francis, the Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, died Monday morning, according to Vatican camerlengo Cardinal Kevin Farrell. His funeral’s slated for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, where the global elite will no doubt gather to mourn their favorite left-leaning cleric.

Behar’s co-host, the not so Sunny Hostin, chimed in with her own sanctimonious take, pining for a Francis clone to keep the Church on its progressive glide path. She waxed poetic about her personal struggles with Catholicism, citing the Church’s sex scandals and its stance on the LGBTQ+ crowd. 

“I’ve struggled with being a Catholic, but this pope changed things for me,” Hostin said. “I remember I was having this discussion with you, Joy, about how I feel like there’s a crisis of empathy in this country, that unless it happens to you, you can’t feel the empathy of it happening to somebody else. They’re going to deport that person. It’s not going to affect my family, so I don’t care that it’s affecting others.”

Hostin then gushed over a “60 Minutes” interview with Francis, quoting him like he’s the second coming of MLK: “We have to get over our hearts to feel again. We cannot remain indifferent in the face of such human dramas. The globalization of indifference is a very ugly disease.” She tacked on her own predictable two cents, declaring that this “globalization of indifference” is a condition “this country is suffering from.” Cue the violins.

Let’s cut through the sanctimony. Behar and her woke posse on “The View” are terrified that the Church might actually elect a Pope who doesn’t kowtow to their progressive checklist. They loved Francis because he was their guy—a Pontiff who gave a wink and a nod to their agenda while soft-pedaling centuries of doctrine. The thought of a “conservative guy” taking the throne of St. Peter sends them into hysterics, as if orthodoxy is some kind of hate crime. 

Meanwhile, these same champions of “empathy” stay mum about the brutal treatment of gays and women in certain Muslim-majority countries. Funny how their moral outrage has a selective mute button. It reminds me of how the so called rule of law is only legitimate when it comes to applying it to conservatives, but not, for example, to leftist judges who break it.

And then there’s their obsession with open borders, which they dress up as compassion but refuse to square with reality. 

The oxymoronically named Joy and Sunny will lecture you about America’s “crisis of empathy” while ignoring the victims of illegal immigration—folks who’ve paid in blood for the Biden administration’s open-door clusterfrack. They’ll shed crocodile tears for migrants but won’t spare a thought for the citizens murdered, assaulted, or displaced by the chaos their policies enable. 

National security? Rule of law? Those are just inconvenient details to these bleeding hearts. They’re too busy preaching “empathy” to notice the jihadists, drug lords, and human traffickers waltzing through our porous borders when Biden was our alleged POTUS.

The irony is thick. Behar and her ilk cheered Pope Francis for steering the Church toward their woke utopia, where dogma bends to ideology and borders are just lines on a map. Now they’re panicking at the thought of a Pope who might actually believe in, you know, Catholicism. 

Their hypocrisy is as blatant as their blind spots. They demand the Church mirror their politics while ignoring the carnage their ideas unleash. If they want to talk about a “crisis of empathy,” they should look in the mirror, hoping it doesn't crack.

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