Steve Bannon Carries Battles to Another Influential Hub: The Vatican

[deminks]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/europe/vatican-steve-bannon-pope-francis.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

ROME — When Stephen K. Bannon was still heading Breitbart News, he went to the Vatican to cover the canonization of John Paul II and make some friends. High on his list of people to meet was an archconservative American cardinal, Raymond Burke, who had openly clashed with Pope Francis.

In one of the cardinal’s antechambers, amid religious statues and book-lined walls, Cardinal Burke and Mr. Bannon — who is now President Trump’s anti-establishment eminence — bonded over their shared worldview. They saw Islam as threatening to overrun a prostrate West weakened by the erosion of traditional Christian values, and viewed themselves as unjustly ostracized by out-of-touch political elites

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While Mr. Trump, a twice-divorced president who has boasted of groping women, may seem an unlikely ally of traditionalists in the Vatican, many of them regard his election and the ascendance of Mr. Bannon as potentially game-changing breakthroughs.

Just as Mr. Bannon has connected with far-right parties threatening to topple governments throughout Western Europe, he has also made common cause with elements in the Roman Catholic Church who oppose the direction Francis is taking them. Many share Mr. Bannon’s suspicion of Pope Francis as a dangerously misguided, and probably socialist, pontiff.

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Hate knows no bounds. Bannon is riding the wave of the imbecile Trump. Is Bannon doing his own bidding, or Pootey's? Is he trying to install his own Pope? One who will bend over to the exploitation of the masses?

[TexasProgresive]

1. Evil Steve is bent on destroying anything that smacks of human decency.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Bannon must have a death wish

He's picking so many different hills to die on.