{"id":317398,"date":"2017-07-15T04:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T03:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vatican-press-lashes-out-at-catholic-trump-voters-calls-steve-bannon-a-supporter-of-apocalyptic-geopolitics\/"},"modified":"2017-07-15T04:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T03:18:53","slug":"vatican-press-lashes-out-at-catholic-trump-voters-calls-steve-bannon-a-supporter-of-apocalyptic-geopolitics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vatican-press-lashes-out-at-catholic-trump-voters-calls-steve-bannon-a-supporter-of-apocalyptic-geopolitics\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Press Lashes Out At Catholic Trump Voters, Calls Steve Bannon \u201cA Supporter Of Apocalyptic Geopolitics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a>
July 14, 2017<\/p>\n

In a relatively shocking article \u2013 don\u2019t forget the Vatican has been extremely outspoken for a man in his office<\/em> \u2013 a close ally of Pope Francis has written in a widely-read Vatican publication attacking Stephen Bannon, the senior White House strategist and lamenting a drift towards fundamentalism among some US conservative Catholics who backed Donald Trump as president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a reminder, <\/a>The pope and Trump have voiced their differences with each other in the past. <\/strong>When asked in 2016 about then-candidate Trump\u2019s proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the pope\u00a0appeared to imply Trump was not a Christian.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0called the religious leader\u2019s\u00a0comments \u201cdisgraceful.\u201d <\/strong>However, the two leaders held a quiet face-to-face\u00a0in May at the Vatican<\/a>, taking part in a 30-minute meeting.<\/p>\n

But now, as The FT reports, <\/a>Antonio Spadaro, a Jesuit priest, close friend of the Pope, and editor of Civilta\u2019 Cattolica, a widely-read publication in the Vatican, wrote in a 2,700-word paper released this week that there was a \u201csurprising\u201d meeting of minds between some Catholic voters in the US and the evangelical Christian right<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThose who profess themselves to be Catholic express themselves in ways that until recently were unknown in their tradition and using tones much closer to Evangelicals,\u201d<\/strong> Mr Spadaro wrote.
He said their \u201cshared objectives\u201d were focused on social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage and they harboured a \u201cnostalgic dream of a theocratic type of state\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, the most dangerous prospect for this strange ecumenism is attributable to its xenophobic and Islamophobic vision that wants walls and purifying deportations,\u201d <\/strong>he added.<\/p>\n

The article has attracted attention because Fr Spadaro is very close to Pope Francis and the Vatican would have approved the paper\u2019s publication<\/strong><\/u>.<\/p>\n

The piece was co-authored by Marcelo…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Zero HedgeJuly 14, 2017 In a relatively shocking article \u2013 don\u2019t forget the Vatican has been extremely outspoken for a man in his office \u2013 a close ally of Pope Francis has written in a widely-read Vatican publication attacking Stephen Bannon, the senior White House strategist and lamenting a drift towards fundamentalism among some US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}