“It’s just amazing to me how hostile the press is to everything the president does,” Chaput told the California-based Hewitt, a Catholic conservative.
“I don’t want to be partisan in my comments here, but it seems to me if we are really serious about our common responsibilities, we support the president,” Chaput said, “whether we accept everything he stands for or not, and wish him success rather than trying to undermine him.
“The elite, of course, kind of pooh-pooh religious faith ... very deliberately,” Chaput said. “It is important to us not to desire to be a part of that with the elite, to the point that we give up our faith.”
According to philly.com, he did not offer any data to support his contention that news media are markedly less religious than the general public — an idea Hewitt proposed to him.
Chaput was on the air to promote a new book, Strangers in a Strange Land, that calls on Catholics to live their faith rigorously in what he sees as a “post-Christian world.” It is due in bookstores next Tuesday.
Chaput said he believes Americans are well within their rights to disagree with a president, “and I think it is important to do that, especially on issues that count, you know, [such as] moral issues. Nonetheless, it's important for us to at least hope for success so that our country can come to a better place.”
Philadelphia’s archbishop since 2011, Chaput, 72, also said he thought that conservatives showed the “same sort of hostility, to a lesser extent, to President Obama,” but that the “elite” media’s hostility to Trump reveals “a greater spirit of despair and anxiety.
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