Sunny Hostin Changes Tune On Pope Leo Xiv After Learning Of Haitian Roots, Declares 'we Have A Black Pope'

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin revealed Monday she now "loves" Pope Leo XIV aft discovering his "Black" background.

Hostin had antecedently expressed concerns astir nan caller pontiff connected Friday aft his comments referencing nan "homosexual lifestyle" resurfaced. On Monday, she said much optimistically astir Pope Leo aft learning his maternal grandparents were described arsenic "people of color" connected documents, pinch his grandfather’s original birthplace listed arsenic Haiti.

"There’s 1 different point that's very absorbing to maine because President Trump, arsenic you remember, called Haiti a definite type of country," Hostin said. "As it turns out, our caller American pope has Haitian and Black roots! So, we really person a Black pope, apparently. It's a chef's buss for me."

After Pope Leo was announced connected Thursday, Hostin said she was "concerned" astir nan LGBTQ community based connected a connection he made successful 2012 arsenic a bishop wherever he described really popular civilization had fostered "sympathy for beliefs and practices that are astatine likelihood pinch nan gospel," including nan "homosexual lifestyle" and "alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children."

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Pope Leo XIV prays complete members of nan world media successful nan Paul VI Hall astatine nan Vatican connected May 12, 2025.  (Domenico Stinellis)

Hostin connected Monday said she was much encouraged by Pope Leo based connected comments from 2023 which she thought showed he had wholly changed his position.  

"He said, you know, he believes what Pope Francis believed is that a religion is simply a religion for everyone. The religion is very inclusive. So, I'm liking this feline a lot! I'm loving nan pope," Hostin said.

Her co-hosts Ana Navarro and Whoopi Goldberg besides praised Pope Leo aft he gave a reside earlier that greeting voicing support for imprisoned journalists.

"He said he stands successful solidarity pinch journalists who are imprisoned for reporting nan truth and urged them to debar ideological aliases partisan language. I for illustration that. I'm digging him," Goldberg said.

"I emotion that 1 of his first acts was to meet pinch journalists and take sides nan right of journalists to beryllium journalists and uncover nan truth," Navarro added. "And I deliberation it's truthful timely that we person an American pope because we are going done things successful this country, and it is bully to show nan world that not each American leaders are nan same. It's bully to person an American that tin denounce nan things happening against immigrants here."

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Sunny Hostin walked backmost her disapproval of Pope Leo XIV connected "The View" Monday. (Screenshot/ABC | Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

"And it's bully to person a Black pope," Hostin chimed in. 

She again touted that he is simply a "Black pope" erstwhile different co-hosts shared their excitement astir Pope Leo. 

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