Former White House chief strategist
and ultraconservative Catholic Steve Bannon said Friday Pope Leo
XIV's election as first US-born pontiff had been a vote against
his old boss Donald Trump and that Leo was the worst choice for
the Catholics in the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
"The worst choice for MAGA Catholics", the election of Leo XIV
"is an anti-Trump vote by the globalists of the Curia", said
Bannon, former chief strategist during Trump's first term,
Politico reported.
Bannon, a week ago, had predicted the election of Chicago-born
Cardinal Robert Prevost, who also has Peruvian citizenship due
to his long missionary work in the South American country..
In an interview with British anchorman Piers Morgan, Bannon had
indicated the Augustinian maths and theology graduate and former
head of the Vatican department that appoints bishops as a "dark
horse", an outsider pushed by the alleged "powers that be" which
the MAGA movement identifies in the so-called 'Deep State' and
'Deep Church'.
Cardinal Prevost recently criticised US Vice President JD
Vance's interpretation of Christian love as having to be
distributed first to family, then other acquaintances, and only
later to unknown people like migrants.
"JD Vance is wrong: Jesus does not ask us to rate our love for
others," said Prevost on February 5.
Vance, a conservative Catholic convert of six year standing, had
said in an interview with conservative outlet Fox News:
"As an American leader, but also just as an American citizen,
your compassion belongs first to your fellow citizens. That
doesn't mean you hate people from outside of your own borders,
but there's this old-school [concept]—and I think it's a very
Christian concept, by the way—that you love your family, and
then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community,
and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and
then, after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the
world."
He said he was citing the thought of St Augustine, whose
teachings inspired the Augustinian order that Leo belongs to and
once led.
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