Colin Jost has a confession to make — and it’s that he finds offensive jokes about the Catholic church pretty funny.

Being that “Saturday Night Live” aired just days after the Roman Catholic Church named Pope Leo XIV as its new leader, it was safe to assume that the variety show’s news segment, “Weekend Update,” would dole out pope jokes like they were communion wafers.

And they certainly delivered — but one crack made by Jost’s “Weekend Update” co-host, Michael Che, did veer into taboo territory.

Just four minutes into the segment, the now infamous AI-generated image of President Donald Trump as the pope popped up on the screen signaling to the audience that Che was about to crack a joke about it.

The image, which the president published to his site Truth Social a little over a week after Pope Francis died, has been criticized by Catholic officials, who called it “deeply offensive,” “sad” and “unfortunate.”

When Trump was later questioned about the backlash to the image, he insisted to reporters that “Catholics loved it.”

But Che had a completely different take on the situation.

“President Trump says Catholics loved an image he posted of him dressed as the pope last week,” Che said before immediately getting to the punchline. “But I just find it hard to believe that anyone in the Catholic Church would be into something so juvenile.”

The quip — that slyly referred to one of the Catholic church’s biggest scandals — garnered groans from the audience and a huge reaction from Jost, who was raised Catholic.

In response to the joke, Jost made a show of letting his jaw drop. He then sarcastically looked around the audience with his mouth agape, implying that he was only feigning outrage and that he secretly found Che’s jab hilarious.

But, as Jost explained earlier in the segment, repressing your true feelings is just part of being a good Catholic. Or at least, according to Jost’s opening joke about the new pope — who made history by being the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church who is originally from the United States.

“Well, the Catholic Church has elected the first ever pope from America,” Jost said at the top of the segment. “And as an American Catholic, I could not be more proud. Which is a sin. And now I’m ashamed.”