Steve Bannon's Big Shot Friend In The Catholic Church Is Done With Steve Bannon

[DonViejo]

Cardinal Raymond Burke dumped Bannon after the former White House staffer allegedly said he was open to priests marrying and that many clergy members in the Vatican are gay.

J. Lester Feder
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on June 25, 2019, at 10:12 p.m. ET

Posted on June 25, 2019, at 6:56 p.m. ET

An influential conservative cardinal with ties to Steve Bannon called their relationship quits on Tuesday. The news followed a report that stated Bannon endorses allowing priests to marry and that he believes a majority of clergy members in the Vatican are gay.

Cardinal Raymond Burke, who was removed from a high-ranking Vatican post following clashes with Pope Francis, is the longtime chair of an organization in Rome working with Bannon to create a far-right political institute.

"I disagree completely with a number of Mr. Bannon's statements regarding the doctrine and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church," Burke said in a statement posted to Twitter Tuesday, highlighting Bannon's endorsement of letting priests marry.

Burke also said, "I have never worked with Mr. Bannon in his organization," and that he has only met with him "on occasion to discuss Catholic social teaching regarding certain political questions."

Burke issued the statement in response to a post published June 24 on the anti-abortion LifeSite News that said Bannon had proposed making a movie of the book In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by left-wing French journalist Frédéric Martel. The book is based on years of reporting and describes an underground gay culture that allegedly pervades the top levels of the Vatican hierarchy.

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[catrose]

1. Of all the reasons to break with Steve Bannon

doctrine and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church?

[Zambero]

2. Ouch! Inconvenient truths?

Not really sure where Bannon is coming from. Is he looking to be perceived as an objective purveyor of fact and/or church reform proponent, or possibly objecting to a gay sub-culture in the Vatican hierarchy as he sees it? At any rate, he has ruffled some feathers in the process.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. At heart, Bannon is a nihilist and deconstructionist.

He's a form of corporate raider who buys companies solely for the purpose of breaking them up and selling their parts.

He would have had an orgasm if he had managed a crisis so severe that the Constitution was put aside indefinitely -- or had a Constitutional Convention where the document would have been re-written altogether.

He may have come across as a devout Catholic, but he's shown that he has disdain for the institution of the Catholic Church and wants to recreate it according to his terms.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Weird - the first time Bannon tells the truth and makes sense, he's dumped.

There is something seriously fucked up about people on the far right.