The American Standing Up to the Pope

Memo to the pope — if you want to cultivate a media image of working man’s champion, great; but you then actually have to stand up for the little guy, and not with the rich and powerful who drive the UN and the EU in favor of their own internationalist agendas at the little guy’s expense. His attempts to demonize the populist movement in Europe and the United States are beneath contempt.

Nicholas Farrell reported these words of Steve Bannon in the December 7, 2018 issue of Spectator USA; besides the fact that this is another criticism of the current pontificate, the American journalist sees in it an aspect worth analyzing.

The enemy denounced by the American president’s former chief strategist is not Pope Francis but the “liberal elite”, explains Nicholas Farrell.

For Steve Bannon, this “elite” consists in the unnatural alliance between two deeply opposed sides: “the internationalist left, for whom nations are the root of all evil; and the global capitalist right, for whom nations are a barrier to profit.”

He considers Francis’ position ambiguous; by approving mass migration and open borders, the pope leads to believe that he could join in this “unholy alliance” between the internationalist left and the global capitalist right.

Spectator USA adds that to fight against the liberal elite he denounces, Steve Bannon plans to open an academy for the defense of the Judeo-Christian West in a former Italian abbey, the Certosa di Trisulti.

This anti-globalist school will be directed, according to the information provided by Nicholas Farrell, by Ben Harnwell, a founding member of the Instituto Dignitatis Humanae, one of whose directors is Cardinal Raymond Burke himself, the prelate who makes no secret of his opposition to the Argentinian pope on the issues of Christian morals and marriage.

When asked whether his academy’s vocation will be to oppose the current pope, the founder of Breitbart News retorted: “The pope is the vicar of Jesus Christ on earth. (…) We’re not trying to destroy the pope but call him back to his responsibilities to speak for the little guy rather than acting as spokesman for the globalist elites — who, by the way, are no fans of the Catholic Faith.”