Fox News host Sean Hannity is explaining his decision to leave the Catholic church long before President Donald Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV. "As of today, I no longer consider myself a Catholic. I am a Christian," Hannity, 64, said on the Thursday, April 16, episode of his primetime show Hannity. "I left the Catholic church in large part due to the institutionalized corruption, and it was at the parish level, to the bishop level, cardinals, all the way to Rome.