Steve Bannon drafting curriculum for right-wing Catholic institute
15 September, 2018
Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is helping to craft the curriculum for a leadership course at a right-wing Roman Catholic institute in Italy, stepping up his efforts to influence conservative thinking in the church.
Benjamin Harnwell, director of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute based in a mountaintop monastery not far from Rome, told Reuters Bannon had been helping to build up the institute for about half of its eight-year life. Cardinal Raymond Burke, a leading Vatican conservative who is president of the Institute's board of advisers, said Bannon.
Burke told Reuters he looked forward to working with Harnwell and Bannon "to promote a number of projects that should make a decisive contribution to the defense of what used to be called Christendom".
Bannon's increased engagement with the Institute demonstrates in Europe extends beyond electoral politics to an effort to build a populist faction inside the Catholic Church.
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