John Cusack Calls Sean Hannity a ‘Bottomless Pit of Self Loathing’ for Slamming Pope Leo XIV

John Cusack didn’t mince words when it came to Sean Hannity‘s takedown of the Catholic church.

On Wednesday, November 10, the Say Anything actor, 60, reacted to a resurfaced clip from an April episode of the anchor’s Fox News show on X. “Sean Hannity announces that he is abandoning his faith because the Pope doesn’t support Trump’s Iran war,” read a caption for the footage.

The video itself had been edited down to make it appear as though Hannity, 64, distanced himself from the Catholic church because of Pope Leo XIV‘s stance on the war in Iran.

“That’s the spirit – Christ the lean mean killing machine- hannity a bottomless pit of self loathing and one of the greatest grovelers to power in broadcast history,” Cusack then wrote on X, reposting the video.

In the unedited version of the video, which is still available on Fox News’ YouTube page, Hannity began by sending a message to the Vatican and, “specifically,” Pope Leo, who has been very critical of the Trump administration.

“I do want to shift gears with a message to the Vatican tonight – specifically, a message to Pope Leo, who has openly condemned America’s war in Iran while seemingly enjoying a public fight with President [Donald] Trump,” the anchor said at the time.

“Let me give some context, like millions of Americans, I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years. I even attended a seminary in high school, studied theology, Latin, went to Mass daily,” he continued, before adding, “As of today, I no longer consider myself a Catholic.”

He, however, then made it clear as he continued that his decision to step away from the Catholic faith wasn’t a new decision.

“I got a lot out of it. My parents, they were devout Catholics … as a young person, it certainly entered my consciousness and made me a better person, and has been a positive force in so many ways,” he explained.

“While I am a Christian, I left the Catholic church in large part because of institutionalized corruption at the parish level, bishop level, cardinals, all the way to Rome,” he said. “The very top scandals, terrible behavior, frankly went not only unchecked, but they never fully corrected it or dealt with it.”

He went on to say many in the church had “truly lost sight of the Bible and its teachings,” before accusing the pope of being “more interested in spreading left-wing politics than the actual teachings of Jesus Christ.”