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CV NEWS FEED // CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Thursday posted a short, edited clip in which Pope Francis appears to suggest “conservative” American bishops who have criticized his pontificate have a “suicidal attitude.”
Francis will feature this coming Sunday in a pre-recorded interview with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell. The “60 Minutes” X (formerly Twitter) account posted the 39-second clip of the interview as a preview of the upcoming episode.
“There are conservative bishops in the United States that oppose your new efforts to revisit teachings and traditions,” O’Donnell says to Francis in the clip. “How do you address their criticism?”
“You used an adjective, ‘conservative,’” Francis answers, laughing. “‘Conservative’ is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that.”
“It is a suicidal attitude,” the pope added. “Because one thing is to take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past. But quite another is to be closed up inside a dogmatic box.”
On Thursday – the same day “60 Minutes” posted the clip – Francis met with Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul at a climate change conference in the Vatican.
Hochul is a self-professed Catholic who supports abortion.
“Look no further than the words of Pope Francis,” Hochul said at the Joint Summit on Climate. “You heard them today. He laid it out … what God expects us to do during our time on this planet.”
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences hosted the summit.
At the same conference, Francis also met with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, another invited speaker. Khan is an avowed leftist and staunch supporter of the LGBTQ movement.
