But beyond the tireless plea of Francis for migrants and insistence on their dignity, his ecological warnings on climate change and the condemnation of the “shameful” war in Gaza, Maga never forgiven him for having given the former president Joe Biden a pass on his rights of support for support – and they could not ignore the warm relations he enjoyed with former President Barack Obama.
But Trump himself took care not to go to the full inclination against the spiritual leader, who benefits from a high note of polls in the United States, with around 80% of American Catholics expressing regular opinions on him.
However, other Maga personalities put it in their reticle, considering Francis as a high priest of world progressivism and an enemy Maga. Bannon, the most notable among them, turned to rich American and European allies – mainly disgruntled church traditionalists who have served Francis’s reformism and restrictions on the dicton of Latin mass – in his attempt to buy the aforementioned monastery of Lazio, Certosa di Trisulti.
Bannon’s plan was to establish a counter-vatican and transform the old Carthusian monastery into an academy for nationalist populists, aimed at helping them to lead the cultural war and “defend the Judeo-Christian roots of Europe”. And with the support of the conservative cardinal Raymond Burke, which Francis had demoted, they did not hide that Francis was their target. The pope “constantly put all the faults of the world on the nationalist populist movement”, complained Bannon in a 2019 interview.
It was, of course, an exaggeration. While Bannon and the Conservatives of the Church have picched Francis as an unmountained radical, the pontiff also frustrated the progressives of the Church who wanted him to engage in substantial changes, in particular the modernization of the teachings of the institution on birth control, gay marriage, married clergy and women.
As disappointed as they are of its reforms, however, the progressives have always been pleasantly surprised, which expected Francis to governing the manner of conservatives like John Paul II and Benoît XVI. Instead, they found a pope wishing to reduce power and reduce the privileges of the hidden curia, as well as to make the Church more inclusive, human and engaged in the time world, prioritizing pastoral duty on doctrinal accuracy.
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