Catholic Steve Bannon ‘told Italy’s populist leader: Pope Francis is the enemy’
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/13/steve-bannon-matteo-salvini-pope-francis-is-the-enemy
During a meeting in Washington in April 2016, Bannon – who would within a few months take up his role as head of Trump’s presidential campaign – suggested the leader of Italy’s anti-immigration League party should start openly targeting Pope Francis, who has made the plight of refugees a cornerstone of his papacy.
“Bannon advised Salvini himself that the actual pope is a sort of enemy. He suggested for sure to attack, frontally,” said a senior League insider with knowledge of the meeting in an interview with the website SourceMaterial.
The League source also alleged that Salvini would have attacked the pope harder but was restrained by his own party, predominantly by Giancarlo Giorgetti, the deputy federal secretary of Lega Nord who is close to senior figures in the Vatican.
Following the September 2016 meeting between Salvini and Bannon, the League leader was photographed holding up a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: “Benedict is my pope.”
The slogan refers to a Vatican version of the “birther” campaign waged by Trump against Barack Obama, claiming that Francis’s papacy is illegitimate and that his ultra-conservative predecessor Benedict XVI is in fact the true pontiff.
antipope's back boys
I wonder how long it'll be 'till they find Bannon unresponsive on a hotel bathroom floor in a puddle of his own piss and vomit.
Dude cannot have many years left in 'im...
Are they genuinely trying to pull a #NotMyPope?
Settle down, losers, at least Francis didn't cheat his way in.
Excommunicado
The Vatican is the enemy
As much as I hate how religious Italy is, this is a fantastic way to lose voters, so hopefully Bannon succeeds in getting them to make this part of their platform!
Really want this to backfire and bring fascism back to its homeland?
Every time I see a new photograph of Steve Bannon, I always have to do a double take because I'm always unsure on whether or not they're photoshopped to make him look more and more like a bloated corpse.
Its amazing what being rich can do for your healthcare
lol you severely underestimate the strength of Catholicism in Italy, especially southern Italy. I tend to be a bit of a pessimist in politics, but I highly, highly doubt this would do anything except deter many of their voters.
Honestly I hope Salvini takes his advice here, nothing would kill an Italian party faster than opposing the pope.
Care to explain? or is it just drive-by shitposting?
My real issue is with the idea of centralized religion having any amount of power period
Francis is a good thing to see, but even he isn't strong-arming against the problems hard enough. A very large amount of it is PR control.
Even if he's an amount of progress, the church has a very long way from being an image of endless greed and pedophilia
the League leader was photographed holding up a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: “Benedict is my pope.”
Outside of this, this shit is hilarious though. Literally proud of supporting one of the biggest shitlords in modern history.
Whatever happened to the pope being the infallible word of god? These idiots can't even follow their own rules consistently
Organization inevitably ends with centralization which requires a hierarchy of power.
Even the major Protestant denominations have national and international conferences that act as centralized, unifying agents for the entirety of the denomination.
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