Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Reacts to the Pope
Aired: 2026-05-04
Duration: 04:41


=== The Pope's Moral Failure (04:21) ===

[00:00:00]  What is your take on what is happening between President Trump and the Pope?
[00:00:06]  I side with the President on this.
[00:00:09]  The Pope's comments are wrong theologically, morally, having nothing to do with Donald Trump or Iran.
[00:00:23]  He said, for example, and I'm paraphrasing, I don't remember the exact quote, that God doesn't hear the prayers.
[00:00:32]  Of soldiers at war.
[00:00:37]  And I was thinking, really?
[00:00:40]  God didn't hear the prayers of the American troops who stormed Normandy Beach to liberate Europe from the Nazis and to end the Holocaust?
[00:00:59]  Really?
[00:01:03]  What God?
[00:01:04]  I even went to the papal website just to read what he meant by that because it's so morally wrong.
[00:01:18]  And they said, well, he didn't really mean it, but he said it.
[00:01:25]  And it's like Tucker Carlson said, I mean, Any killing of an innocent in war is a murder and it's a crime and it's an evil.
[00:01:41]  Then you can't wage war.
[00:01:44]  There is no war possible where no innocents will be killed.
[00:01:50]  We live in an age of such moral confusion.
[00:01:54]  But I don't care about Tucker Carlson.
[00:01:56]  I care about the Pope of the Catholic Church, the vicar of Christ on earth.
[00:02:03]  If he isn't thinking clearly morally, that's a bad sign.
[00:02:08]  Happily, a vast number of Catholics have learned the sad way not to agree with their Pope on every matter.
[00:02:19]  And let me explain to everybody: Popes are only infallible when they invoke infallibility.
[00:02:29]  And they have done so, I believe, in the history of infallibility twice.
[00:02:38]  And they were over-theological.
[00:02:41]  Church doctrines which have no oral consequence.
[00:02:49]  So you can be a great Catholic and differ with your Pope.
[00:02:55]  And you are a great Catholic if you do in this matter.
[00:03:02]  Dennis, I know that many of your best friends are Catholics.
[00:03:05]  Many of the Prager U employees are Catholics.
[00:03:07]  Several board members at Prager U are Catholics.
[00:03:11]  It is very difficult for me to see the president.
[00:03:16]  Talking back at the Pope, right?
[00:03:18]  You think that the Pope is somebody you don't talk back at, except my other reaction to it is Is there an expectation that if the Pope enters into the political arena and starts talking politics, is there an expectation that nobody reacts to him when he talks about politics?
[00:03:36]  And that's what I think is very tricky and difficult here.
[00:03:39]  We want to give him the respect that he should command and deserve, but how do you do that if he's entering into this arena where there is going to be Natural disagreement.
[00:03:51]  And I don't know if politics is even the arena of the Pope.
[00:03:56]  No, I think that certain, I don't know what politics means.
[00:04:03]  He's not going to say vote Democrat or vote Labor, but the issue he raised was moral about killing and God listening to the prayers of people who kill.

=== God Hearing Soldiers' Prayers (00:19) ===

[00:04:21]  And if God didn't hear, I'm not saying God responded, but if God didn't hear, The prayers of the soldiers liberated France and the rest of Western Europe from the Nazis, then that's not a God I believe in.