CBS News' Tony Dokoupil - while reporting live from the Vatican Wednesday - said Cardinals deciding the pope's successor will be 'raw-dogging' the process.
The use of the popular slang term came during his network's coverage of the Papal Conclave.
It refers to shunning certain forms of entertainment to yield a more bare-bones experience.
According to The Daily Mail, it's also a spin on a older phrase that holds an entirely different meaning - to have unprotected sex.
Using such a term on TV - while reporting live from outside the Sistine Chapel - appeared to be ill-advised, and it elicited some awkward reactions from the rest of the CBS Conclave team.
Many aired outrage over what they viewed as an insult given the occasion. Others simply expressed disbelief.
Pope Francis, meanwhile, passed away almost two weeks ago at age 88. Cardinals were in the midst of the prestigious process of picking a successor when Dokoupil, 44, made the strange gaffe.
'Most of them will tell you that while that’s going on, they’re sitting reading their breviary, that’s a book of prayers that clergy have, or praying a rosary,' Josh Allen, the editor of Catholic news website Crux, first said.
'The one thing we know they’re not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated,' he added - at which point Dokoupil chimed in.
'I believe the kids call it raw-dogging it– ' Dokoupil - the host of struggling CBS Mornings - joked, allowing a beat for he had hoped was laughs.
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But they never came, with the journalist met with a wall of silence following a quick smirk from Allen.
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