Steve Bannon gets blasted by nun over immigrants swipe on "60 Minutes"

[DonViejo]

FRIDAY, SEP 8, 2017 09:59 AM EDT

After the Breitbart chief hit the Catholic Church over immigrants, a Catholic nun fired back

MATTHEW ROZSA

Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, has been publicly taken down a peg by a nun.

The impetus for the Twitter lashing was Bannon telling Charlie Rose on “60 Minutes” that the Catholic Church’s opposition to Trump’s proposed repeal of DACA was “terrible” and that “they need illegal aliens to fill the churches. That’s obvious on the face of it.”

Bannon added, “They have an economic interest in unlimited immigration, unlimited illegal immigration.”

Sr. Simone Campbell, the executive director of the National Catholic Social Justice Lobby NETWORK, had strong words for Bannon on Twitter regarding those sentiments.

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[Hoyt]

1. White wingers like Bannon are incapable of understanding/caring. Bannon is about as

much a Christian as Hitler.

[hlthe2b]

2. His brand of "Catholicism" is about like Antonin Scalia's...

or the "Christianity" sans Christ of the far RW fundy ministries.

SOOO glad to see him being called out for it, though.

[Mrs. Overall]

3. Thank you, Sister Simone, for spanking little Steve. Ouch.

[gopiscrap]

4. I fully agree with her

[GoneOffShore]

5. I applaud her efforts. Though Bannon, the heathen fuckwit that he is, will ignore her.

[customerserviceguy]

6. Hmm

the last time I remember Catholic clergy being outraged was when the pedophile scandal first broke. They knew what it would do to the collection plate.

I'm a recovered ex-Catholic, and the church has been about money for centuries, Martin Luther knew that. I'm not saying that Bannon is 100% right about everything he says, but in this case, he seems to have struck a nerve.