Bannon, Salvini, And A Powerful Catholic Cardinal Are Gunning For Pope Francis
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Thu, 06/21/2018
As the populist wave continues to rise throughout Europe – most recently in Italy where refugees are now being turned away, prominent conservative Catholics are coming together to take on Pope Francis.
At the center of the intra-faith efforts are Steve Bannon, along with Italy’s new interior minister Matteo Salvini and American Cardinal Raymond Burke – all of whom are staunchly opposed to liberal open-border policies advocated by the Pope.
Francis is a harsh critic of secure borders, and an advocate of unchecked migration – calling President Trump “un-Christian” for wanting to build his wall (which would be around 30-feet, the same height as the wall surrounding the Vatican).
It is no secret that Francis, whose first ever apostolic voyage was to the Italian island of Lampedusa to give support to the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have crashed onto the shores there, supports an open-border policy. He has celebrated mass on the Mexican border with the United States, and he has warned world leaders to prioritize the acceptance of migrants over national security concerns and to avoid “discrimination, racism, extreme nationalism and xenophobia.” -Daily Beast
Burke, Bannon and Salvini have railed against these policies, with Bannon calling the Catholic Church “one of the worst instigators of this open borders policy,” adding that “The Pope – more than anybody else – has driven the migrant crisis in Europe.”
The three conservative Catholics came together earlier this month when Bannon was in Rome to celebrate Italy’s new populist coalition government run by Salvini, along with Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. During his visit, Bannon took a side-trip to the 800-year-old Trisulti monastery under development by conservative UK catholic Benjamin Harnwell.
Harnwell runs a conservative Catholic organization, the Dignitatis Humanae Institute – which was “founded to help Christian politicians defend their faith in the public square.”
The monastery will host events with speakers like Bannon and Burke and conservative Christian leaders.
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Harnwell and his organization are an important connection between Bannon and Burke. Harnwell is the one who first introduced the two, according to a New York Times article that is displayed on Harnwell’s website. Bannon spoke at one of Harnwell’s’ conferences by grainy video link back in 2014 during which he warned that the migration exodus would lead to a rise in populism. Burke was the keynote speaker the year before. -Daily Beast
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