Stephen Colbert has been open about his Catholic faith before (here is a roundup; and that time he beat up on Bart Ehrman), and when he does talk about, he can have a defensive, sometimes apologetic, posture that is understandable given the industry in which he operates. He whose business it is to entertain mustn’t risk alienating huge swaths of audience with ancillary issues like faith and religion.
His faith, however, is meaningful enough to him that he brings it up willingly in public from time to time, as he has in a recent GQ interview that is getting some attention from Christians in social media and elsewhere (see here).
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