Fox News’ Sean Hannity jumped to Donald Trump’s defense (as he often does) on Thursday, siding with the president in his feud with Pope Leo XIV — and drawing fierce backlash online.

On his radio show, Hannity offered to interview the pontiff over his criticism of Trump’s war with Iran, which the president has now repeatedly flipped out over.

Hannity accused Leo of feigning “selective moral outrage” and “seemingly enjoying this public fight with Donald Trump.”

“I think it’s time that he starts to get questioned. Donald Trump takes questions all the time,” he continued. “Nobody gets to ask the pope a single thing. And I think it’s time and I would like to offer myself as the person to go interview the pope. I think I’m uniquely qualified. I studied Latin, theology, went to Catholic Church for 12 years. I’d love to interview the pope.”

Listen via Media Matters here:

Later, on his Fox News show, Hannity doubled down, claiming the leader of the Roman Catholic Church is “seemingly more interested in spreading left-wing politics than the actual teachings of Jesus Christ.” And saying the pope’s statement that “God does not bless any conflict and certainly doesn’t side with those who drop bombs” was “simply not biblically accurate” because “the Bible contains over 400 references to war, for equally depicting God as authorizing, commanding, intervening in battles like one that we all know, the battle between David and Goliath.”

“Why is the pope twisting religion to specifically attack only President Trump and the U.S.?” he asked, also suggesting Leo is a “run-of-the-mill Trump-hating Democrat.”

Hannity: Pope Leo is seemingly more interested in spreading left-wing politics than the actual teachings of Jesus Christ. Why is the pope twisting religion to only attack Trump? Why did he recently meet with top Obama advisor David Axelrod and J.B. Pritzker? Is it because he is… pic.twitter.com/aBhhXVPn9P

Critics were quick to react, with many expressing disbelief at the latest example of a MAGA figure attempting to lecture the pope on religion.

MAGA elites are now regularly delivering lectures about the teachings of Jesus Christ to…the Pope. This is not “I disagree with the Church on X issue.” This is “My personal interpretation of the Gospel is superior to the Vicar of Christ.” It’s deranged in a way I didn’t… https://t.co/p25YXaaOkG

Hannity knows more about Catholicism than the Pope https://t.co/xYgvZRAnUp

“The actual teachings of Jesus Christ,” which Hannity thinks he knows better than…The Pope? https://t.co/k0fvgYMth2

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