Bishop removed by Pope Francis reacts live to announcement of Pope Leo XIV



Yesterday, smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel, signaling the election of a new pope. An hour later, the Vatican announced Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, as the next head of the Roman Catholic Church.

At the time these events were unfolding, Glenn Beck was interviewing Bishop Joseph Strickland, who was removed from office by Pope Francis after he came out publicly against him for diverting from the Catholic faith.

Before the election of Cardinal Prevost, Bishop Strickland had warned that “there are wolves roaming freely in the conclave.”

Is Leo XIV one of them?

In the following interview, Bishop Strickland and Glenn react to the live announcement of Robert Prevost’s election. Bishop Strickland then shares what he knows about him.

“He was head of the congregation for bishops,” says Strickland. “He’s a relatively new cardinal.”

“Two years ago, Pope Francis chose him to replace Marc Ouellet as prefect of the Vatican's bishops, handing him the task of selecting the next generation of bishops,” adds Glenn, reading from Prevost’s biography.

“What do you know — good guy, bad guy? Any clue?” he asks, noting that Prevost’s past is “clouded by allegations of covering up sexual abuse claims,” although these “were denied by his diocese.”

“As head of the congregation for bishops, frankly, in my opinion he made some really bad choices,” says Strickland. “Of course, it was Pope Francis, but [Prevost] was involved in naming bishops that I find very troubling.”

Strickland also notes that Prevost’s chosen name — Leo XIV — is an interesting choice.

“The predecessor, Leo XIII — he had visions of evil taking the church, and the St. Michael prayer, the archangel prayer, came from Leo XIII. ... He was good, and he was strong in a lot of ways,” he says, calling Prevost’s choice of name “significant.”

The best thing we can do, he says, is “keep praying.”

To hear more of his thoughts on Pope Leo XIV, watch the episode above.

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Did the conclave pick a LIBERAL to be the new pope?



The conclave in the Vatican has elected a new pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, who has taken the name Pope Leo XIV.

And while many are thrilled that the Conclave elected an American pope, others are concerned that his political ideology might lean too far to the left, as Prevost hasn’t been shy about blasting Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric.

He made this clear when he shared an American Magazine article on X titled, “Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration.”

The article centers around a letter Pope Francis wrote to the bishops of the United States regarding immigration and mass deportation, which was in response to the Trump administration’s focus on the immigration crisis.


The letter from Pope Francis also criticizes JD Vance’s interpretation of “ordo amoris,” which is a theological concept the vice president used in explaining his view on immigration.

“It seems like they could have picked a super conservative, and they went, ‘We’ll pick one that wants to be political again,’” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.

“They could have picked a complete looney liberal. I mean, I’m not surprised that he’s different than a conservative on immigration,” BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden counters, though he believes that “a lot of that has to do with wanting to fill the pews in Catholic churches in the United States.”

“The majority of the people, if you go to Catholic churches here, are Hispanic. So part of it is that,” Marsden continues, adding, “It’s nice that it’s an American pope though. I’m going to take that win.”

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The woman behind the ‘bloodbath’ at the DOJ: Harmeet Dhillon sets the record straight



According to the left, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon is responsible for a “bloodbath” in the Department of Justice. The ACLU has claimed her record consists of restricting voting rights, transgender rights, and abortion access.

Worse yet, the NAACP calls her a “grave threat to democracy.”

Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Podcast” couldn’t like her more, saying, “She’s the woman who will wrestle back that one piece of the DOJ from the clutches of wokeness and that has the deep state quaking in its boots.”

And considering her stance on the issues the federal government uplifted and protected under Biden, the deep state certainly should be “quaking in its boots.”


“We don’t want people in the federal government who feel like it’s their pet project to go persecute police departments based on statistical evidence, or persecute people praying outside abortion facilities instead of doing violence. That’s not the job here. The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology,” Dhillon tells Glenn.

Dhillon’s been on the job for a little over two weeks, and she’s already put multiple pieces of her plan into play.

“The president signed an executive order targeting anti-Christian bias in federal agencies, and that tallies with some of our civil rights agenda, which is to protect the rights of people of faith throughout the United States, whether they’re in federal agencies or not,” Dhillon tells Glenn.

“We’re aso going after the notorious anti-Semitic violence and discrimination happening throughout the United States, but specifically on American college campuses. The most elite campuses in the United States are the places where the most egregious violations are occurring,” she continues.

Under the Biden administration, elderly and young Americans were also arrested and persecuted for the “crime” of praying outside abortion facilities under the FACE Act, which Dhillon is also taking a hammer to.

“One of the first things that was done under the new administration was to dismiss multiple cases in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio,” she explains. “We are not going to be pursuing these FACE Act cases other than an extraordinary circumstance involving death, serious bodily harm, or extreme property damage. And none of the recent cases have any of those fact patterns.”

However, pro-life facilities that involve prenatal care have been violently attacked in the last few years.

“We will aggressively go after them,” Dhillon says. “There were more than 200 incidents in the last few years of those kinds of facilities where people were counseled about their choices, about adoption, about keeping the baby.”

“Those facilities have been violently attacked by activists with no action by law enforcement, federal or state. We will be going after those cases because every woman has a right to go into those facilities and get fair, open, and even, in some cases, religious-inflected advice about their choices with respect to the baby that they are growing in their body,” she adds.

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Ben Shapiro tells Glenn Beck the EXACT moment the legacy media died



It goes without saying that the era of mainstream media is over. The outlets that once were trusted news sources are now dismissed as relics of a dead system.

It didn’t have to be this way. Mainstream outlets earned the moniker of "legacy media." They dug their own grave with unapologetic propaganda, gatekeeping, and centralized control.

The question is: What was the final nail in the mainstream media’s coffin?

Ben Shapiro, co-founder and editor emeritus of the Daily Wire, answered this question on an episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast.”

Shapiro recalls 2004’s “Rathergate,” when CBS News’ Dan Rather aired fake memos questioning President George W. Bush’s National Guard service.

When that happened, “people on our side were like, ‘ah, the mainstream media is dead,”’ he says, but they were wrong because the corporate media “spent the next nearly 20 years proving they certainly were not dead.”

“They could define narratives, and they could lie, and they could really define how Americans thought on a wide variety of issues ranging from BLM to COVID to Russiagate,” Shapiro tells Glenn.

The actual death of the mainstream media, he contends, happened just last year.

“I think 2024 was the definitive nail in the coffin — maybe the last nail in the coffin for the legacy media,” he says.

Ironically, it was Sleepy Joe who shot the final arrow.

“Joe Biden effing that debate with Trump was the single most important political moment probably of our lifetimes, because it wasn't just that it forced him out of the race. What it did is it exposed the entire legacy media infrastructure — all of them, all at once,” Shapiro explains.

“Literally weeks before that debate, they were saying it was a cheap fake to show tape of him on stage with Obama guiding him off stage because he didn't know where the hell he was, right? So they were maintaining that narrative consistently, and then Joe Biden was stupid enough to get on that debate stage.”

Shapiro recalls how almost immediately after the debate began, the camera panned to Biden, who looked as if he were “staring at the grim visage of death off screen with the goggly eyes.”

“You were like, ‘oh my God, death is going to take him in the middle of this. He can actually see the Grim Reaper with the scythe standing off to the side,’” he jokes, comparing the spectacle to an “episode of 'The Twilight Zone.'”

“I think in that moment, the legacy media died.”

While the mainstream media attempted to feign shock at Biden’s performance, the secret was out: “They were in the know for years.”

“These people lie, and they lie with an agenda,” says Shapiro.

And that’s something the American people just won’t tolerate.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Gavin Newsom Is Trying To Use His Podcast To Rehabilitate His Far-Left Image

[rebelmouse-proxy-image https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-3.11.25 PM-e1741806771157-1200x675.png crop_info="%7B%22image%22%3A%20%22https%3A//thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-3.11.25%5Cu202fPM-e1741806771157-1200x675.png%22%7D" expand=1]Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom released a new podcast episode on Wednesday featuring former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of his efforts to redefine himself ahead of 2028. Within the first two and a half minutes of the episode, Newsom took a swipe at Democrats’ hypocrisy on tariffs, saying: “I’m not […]

Inside Kid Rock's plan to put Bill Maher and Trump in the same room



In his recent exclusive sit-down interview with country-rap rocker and MAGA superfan Kid Rock, Glenn Beck heard some news that shocked him.

Kid Rock is taking liberal political commentator and television host Bill Maher to the White House to have dinner with President Trump.

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“I’m actually gonna try to unite this country, and I’m starting at the end of the month. I’m taking Bill Maher to the White House for dinner,” Rock told Glenn.

“This guy has done nothing but talk smack about the president since day one,” he added, acknowledging that part of Maher’s Trump antagonism is because “he’s a comedian.”

In reality, though, “he’s actually more reasonable than a lot of people on the right would think,” Rock said.

“What would it say to this country” to have two “very public figures … break bread, have some laughs, take a picture? ... Does that start to send a message to people?” he asked.

There’s always a chance that the public will see it as Maher “[looking] soft for going” or Trump coming across as “weak,” but even so, Rock thinks it’s a good place to start if we want to begin bridging the gap between the left and the right that’s grown so vast in recent years.

If the nation watches Maher and President Trump have dinner (and maybe even have a little fun while doing it), Rock thinks it might inspire someone to “call that family member that you got into it over politics with,” or make amends with “that person at the school that you don’t like to talk to any more.”

He hopes that such an unexpected event will help everybody “calm down a little bit.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above. To see Glenn’s full interview with Kid Rock, head over to BlazeTV.

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‘MAHA will transcend MAGA’: Women care more about healthy kids than abortion



While abortion has been a major topic of contention among female voters, there’s something women care about more than “the right” to end a baby’s life.

“That’s why you have this partnership with RFK Jr. and Trump joining together to be like, ‘Hey, this Make America Healthy Again stuff is for everybody,' and that’s why we gained eight points with female voters for Trump,” Alex Clark, wellness influencer and host of “Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark,” tells Glenn Beck.

“It was interesting to me that the left was focusing on abortion, talking about abortion rights, and being pro-choice, ‘This is what’s going to win us the election with women’ — and actually, it turns out women care a lot more about their sick, unhealthy kids, and voting to put healthy food on the table as opposed to killing them,” she continues.


“MAHA and this MAHA movement, this isn’t a four-year program for the Trump administration. MAHA will transcend MAGA. It is a nonpartisan political movement to fix our food, to fix our health, and it’s going to keep going after Trump is done with this term,” she adds.

Glenn admits that he’s “never seen anything like this” in his lifetime.

“You’ve got Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Farm, you have power and money that just does not want you to be heard,” he says.

“And you can see how scared they are based on the news headlines,” Clark agrees. “Everybody’s talking about these measles outbreaks. Everybody’s bring up measles, every headline is measles, every single press conference, they’re asking, ‘Are you scared about the measles?’”

“We’ve had a couple measles outbreaks every single year, forever,” she continues. “It’s interesting to me, though, that you’re seeing the media focus on measles and create this absolute fear with parents on this disease, but that was like before the vaccine came out, I mean a couple hundred people were hospitalized a year for measles.”

“We have hundreds of millions of people dying of chronic disease in this country, but no, the headlines aren’t talking about that,” she adds.

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Jets told Aaron Rodgers he can't go on Pat McAfee's show if he stays on the team, reporter claims



New York Jets management allegedly told Aaron Rodgers that he would have stipulations around his media appearances if he were to return to the team for the 2025 season.

The news came from Dianna Russini, a former NFL analyst for ESPN now working for the Athletic, who said most of the candidates who were interviewing for the Jets' vacant head coach role planned on moving forward "without Aaron Rodgers" if they got the job.

This apparently included former Jets star Aaron Glenn, who was hired, and subsequently had conversations with Rodgers about what the team's future looked like.

According to Russini, Glenn told Rodgers, "If you're going to be part of this team, you're going to attend all [of] training camp, [and] you're not going to do Pat McAfee interviews anymore."

"The Pat McAfee Show" on ESPN is where Rodgers has made some of his most newsworthy remarks, including when he had a public feud with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Another example comes from December 2024, when Rodgers said journalists need to state whether they received a COVID-19 vaccine before they criticize him, so readers and viewers will know whether the media member was "captured" by COVID-19 propaganda.

'Every single person on this team is going to be treated the same way.'

Russini made the claim on her podcast "Scoop City" with co-host and Super Bowl champion Chase Daniel. Daniel immediately asked Russini to clarify who passed down the new requirements to Rodgers.

She reiterated, "The GM and the head coach when they had these conversations."

Russini claimed this was Glenn's way of taking back control of a team that Rodgers has largely been seen as driving. Rumors swirled throughout the 2024 season that Rodgers was responsible for the firing of former head coach Robert Saleh, but Rodgers denied he had any part of it.

The 42-year-old quarterback was also accused of deliberately mocking Jets ownership in order to get traded or cut from the team.

"Aaron Glenn ... that's the one pushing for, 'I'm holding everyone accountable and every single person on this team is going to be treated the same way,'" Russini said of the new coach's mindset.

Daniel said he wondered if Rodgers would have remained the Jets quarterback if he agreed to the supposed stipulations, but Russini claimed the franchise was going to try to move on from Rodgers no matter what happened.

Rodgers still has another year left on his three-year, $112.5 million contract with the Jets. It remains unclear if he will retire before or after the contract runs out. Neither Rodgers nor McAfee have publicly addressed the rumor.

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New evidence indicates Shroud of Turin shows EXACT moment of resurrection



For centuries, the Shroud of Turin has been a major controversy. Imprinted by the body of a crucified man, the linen cloth is believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. Others, however, claim it is a forgery from medieval times.

How is such a mystery solved?

Experts have long gone back and forth on the garment’s authenticity, but today, thanks to scientific advancements and artificial intelligence, many researchers now believe that the garment’s authenticity can no longer be denied. They’ve even discovered evidence showing the exact moment Jesus was resurrected.

In his latest podcast episode, Glenn Beck met with one of the leading experts on the Shroud of Turin — New Testament scholar, pastor, and president of Christian Thinkers Society Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston.

In this groundbreaking episode, Dr. Johnston covers the scientific, historic, and theological background of the Shroud of Turin and presents the latest research that likely proves the authenticity of one of the world’s most precious yet controversial artifacts.

While the name “Shroud of Turin” wasn’t used until the mid-16th century, the Gospels, other historical records, art, and metal coins predating the nomenclature all corroborate the authenticity of the garment.

“We see the exact same image of the face of Jesus in coins that corresponds with the face of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin,” says Dr. Johnston, adding that the same can be said of the earliest Jesus icons, including the one from Sinai.

Further, the majority of pollen samples found on the shroud originated in Jerusalem, specifically the varieties that bloom in the springtime, when Passover takes place.

“There are pints and pints and pints of blood all over the shroud” from “50 abrasions on the forehead” where the crown of thorns was placed, “372 lacerations from a Roman whip,” and the “lance wound in the side.”

When researchers tested the blood and the chromosomes, they found that it was human blood from a male. The blood type was AB, which is significant because “less than 3% of the world's population has type AB blood, and it is found primarily in the land of Israel.”

The blood from the lance wound in Jesus’ side was found to be "postmortem blood,” which lines up with the scriptural account of his death.

All of this research debunks the idea that the shroud was forged in medieval days, Dr. Johnston argues.

“If you're going to fake the shroud, you've got to kill a guy, his blood needs to be postmortem blood, and then you need to slap that on the spear wound,” he tells Glenn.

As for the moment of resurrection, Dr. Johnston explains that the shroud is a negative, meaning that light and dark values are reversed.

According to the research, a flash of light created the image on the linen.

“It took 34,000 trillion watts of energy emanating from the body in a flash of 1/40th of a billionth of a second to produce that image, so in other words God took the first selfie,” says Dr. Johnston.

What we see when we look at the image imprinted on the linen is “the moment of Jesus’ physical bodily resurrection Sunday morning, April 5, AD 33.”

To hear more about the Shroud of Turin and why Dr. Johnston says it’s “the most lied about artifact from antiquity,” watch the episode above.

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