With weeks until The Late Show airs its final episode, Stephen Colbert revealed his "white whale" interview. "The pope is my white whale," the 61-year-old comedian and outspoken Catholic told The Hollywood Reporter. "I wrote him. I said, 'Come on!' No, I said, 'Your Holiness, I hope this letter finds you well or, at the very least, infallible. Would you please come on my show? We don't have to talk about politics,'" he revealed. Pope Leo has emerged as a vocal Trump critic. By: MEGA Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, has been a critic of Donald Trump and his administration.