Everything You Need to Know About HBOs “The Young Pope”

What’s more, he’s a tyrant. He has a priest break the seal of confession to share his cardinals’ secrets, the better to blackmail and rule by fear. (It’s not a sin if the pope does it, he assures the confessor.)  – NYTimes review

So, it’s a piece of anti-Catholic crap with all the sophistication of Jack Chick’s The Death Cookie.

I suspected as much from the ads.