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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">end:</font></div><div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="335" data-total-count="8015" id="story-continues-10" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cardinal Burke — who has said that the pope’s exhortation, which opened the door for divorced Catholics remarried outside the church to receive communion, might require <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-burke-if-pope-wont-clarify-his-serious-error-cardinals-must-make-a">“a formal act of correction”</a> — has been unusually outspoken in his criticism of Francis. Cardinal Burke and Mr. Bannon declined to comment for this article.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="549" data-total-count="8564" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Just weeks ago, the pope stripped Cardinal Burke of his remaining institutional influence after a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/world/europe/ten-centuries-later-a-pope-and-knights-do-battle.html">scandal exploded at the Knights of Malta</a>, a nearly 1,000-year-old chivalrous order where he had been exiled as a liaison to the Vatican. </b>The pope had removed the order’s grand master after he showed disobedience to the pope. There was a sense in the order that the grand master followed the lead of Cardinal Burke because he projected authority, a power that stemmed in part from his support by the Trump administration, one influential knight said.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="571" data-total-count="9135" id="story-continues-11" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cardinal Burke has become a champion to conservatives in the United States. Under Mr. Bannon, Breitbart News urged its Rome correspondent to write sympathetically about him. And at a meeting before last month’s anti-abortion March for Life rally in Washington, Cardinal Burke received the Law of Life Achievement, or Nail award, a framed replica of the nail used to hold the feet of Christ to the cross. According to John-Henry Westen, the editor of <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-burke-awarded-by-u.s.-pro-life-leaders-for-defending-faith-life-an">Life Site News</a>, who announced the award, the prize is awarded to Christians “who have received a stab in the back.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="109" data-total-count="9244" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite Mr. Bannon’s inroads in Rome, Mr. Burke and other traditionalists are not ascendant in the Vatican.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="211" data-total-count="9455" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a Jesuit priest who edits the Vatican-approved journal La Civilta Cattolica and who is close to the pope, dismissed their criticism as the stuff of a noisy but small “echo chamber.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="177" data-total-count="9632" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also played down the effect of Mr. Trump’s ascent on the standing of Francis’ opponents in the Vatican, saying it was only on a “level of image” and “propaganda.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="181" data-total-count="9813" id="story-continues-12" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The pope will maintain his direction and not be distracted by fights against those trying to undercut him, Father Spadaro said. “He moves forward, and he moves ahead very fast.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="303" data-total-count="10116" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He added that Mr. Trump’s ban on immigrants from certain Muslim countries was “opposite” to the pontiff’s vision for how to foster unity and peace</b>. The pope, Father Spadaro said, is doing everything he can to avoid the clash of civilizations that both fundamentalist Muslims and Christians want.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="50" data-total-count="10166" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indeed, the pope does not seem to be slowing down.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="250" data-total-count="10416" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Days after the election of Mr. Trump, in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican officially elevated new cardinals selected by Pope Francis who reflected the pope’s emphasis on an inclusive church — far from the worldview of Mr. Bannon and Mr. Burke.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="260" data-total-count="10676" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s not that he is just bringing new people in that think maybe like him,” Cardinal Blase Cupich, the influential new cardinal of Chicago, said after the ceremony. “He is transforming the church in making us rethink how we have done things before.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="134" data-total-count="10810" id="story-continues-13" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That transformation was evident later in the evening, when the old conservative guard came to pay their respects to the new cardinals.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="345" data-total-count="11155" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">João Braz de Aviz, a powerful cardinal close to the pope, walked around in simple cleric clothes, the equivalent of civilian dress among all the flowing cassocks. Asked whether the ascent of Mr. Trump would embolden Mr. Bannon’s allies in the Vatican to intensify their opposition and force the pope to take a more orthodox line, he shrugged.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="269" data-total-count="11424" data-node-uid="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The doctrine is secure,” he said, adding that the mission of the church was more to safeguard the poor. It was also, he reminded his traditionalist colleagues, to serve St. Peter, whose authority is passed down through the popes. “And today, Francis is Peter.”</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/europe/vatican-steve-bannon-pope-francis.html?r=0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/europe/vatican-steve-bannon-pope-francis.html?r=0</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="story-body-supplemental" style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="story-body story-body-1" style="position: relative; flex-grow: 0; width: 705px;"><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="288" data-total-count="288" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OME — </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When Stephen K. Bannon was still heading Breitbart News, he went to the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Roman Catholic Church." class="meta-org">Vatican</a> to cover the canonization of John Paul II and make some friends. High on his list of people to meet was an archconservative American cardinal, Raymond Burke, who had openly clashed with <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/francis_i/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Pope Francis." class="meta-per">Pope Francis</a>.</span></font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="412" data-total-count="700" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In one of the cardinal’s antechambers, amid religious statues and book-lined walls, Cardinal Burke and Mr. Bannon — who is now President Trump’s anti-establishment eminence — bonded over their shared worldview. They saw Islam as threatening to overrun a prostrate West weakened by the erosion of traditional Christian values, and viewed themselves as unjustly ostracized by out-of-touch political elites.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="339" data-total-count="1039" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When you recognize someone who has sacrificed in order to remain true to his principles and who is fighting the same kind of battles in the cultural arena, in a different section of the battlefield, I’m not surprised there is a meeting of hearts,” said Benjamin Harnwell, a confidant of Cardinal Burke who arranged the 2014 meeting.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="248" data-total-count="1287" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Mr. Trump, a twice-divorced president who has boasted of groping women, may seem an unlikely ally of traditionalists in the Vatican, many of them regard his election and the ascendance of Mr. Bannon as potentially game-changing breakthroughs.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="351" data-total-count="1638" id="story-continues-1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just as Mr. Bannon has connected with far-right parties threatening to topple governments throughout Western Europe, he has also made common cause with elements in the Roman Catholic Church who oppose the direction Francis is taking them.<b> Many share Mr. Bannon’s suspicion of Pope Francis as a dangerously misguided, and probably socialist, pontiff.</b></font></p><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/europe/vatican-steve-bannon-pope-francis.html?r=0#story-continues-2" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Continue reading the main story</font></a></div><div class="supplemental first" id="supplemental-1" data-between-flex-ads="true" data-pre-height="1291" data-max-items="2" data-remaining="346" data-minimum="400" data-last-item-height="546" data-flex-ad-adjacency="true" data-post-height="1291" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; width: 360px; flex-flow: column nowrap; justify-content: flex-start;"><div class="supplemental-items" data-supplemental-order="1" data-no-med-rec="true" data-no-ads="true" style="margin-bottom: 45px; height: auto; max-height: 900px; display: flex; flex-flow: column nowrap; justify-content: space-around;"><div class="story-interrupter" id="story-continues-2" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="FlexAd" class="ad flex-ad nocontent robots-nocontent ad-loaded" data-google-query-id="CKvy-JfttdICFVCA7Qodu3EPwA" style="width: 1125px; display: flex; justify-content: center; flex-wrap: wrap; margin: 20px 0px 37px; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 25px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(235, 235, 235); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(235, 235, 235);"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/europe/vatican-steve-bannon-pope-francis.html?r=0#story-continues-3" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Continue reading the main storyUntil now, Francis has marginalized or demoted the traditionalists, notably Cardinal Burke, carrying out an inclusive agenda on migration, climate change and poverty that has made the pope a figure of unmatched global popularity, especially among liberals. Yet in a newly turbulent world, Francis is suddenly a lonelier figure. Where once Francis had a powerful ally in the White House in Barack Obama, now there is Mr. Trump and Mr. Bannon, this new president’s ideological guru
who are fearful of a pontiff they consider outwardly avuncular but internally a ruthless wielder of absolute political power, this angry moment in history is an opportunity to derail what they see as a disastrous papal agenda. And in Mr. Trump, and more directly in Mr. Bannon, some self-described “Rad Trads” — or radical traditionalists — see an alternate leader who will stand up for traditional Christian values and against Muslim interlopers.</font></a><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="325" data-total-count="2974" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/europe/vatican-steve-bannon-pope-francis.html?_r=0#story-continues-3" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There are huge areas where we and the pope do overlap, and as a loyal Catholic, I don’t want to spend my life fighting against the pope on issues where I won’t change his mind,” Mr. Harnwell said over a lunch of cannelloni. “Far more valuable for me would be spend time working constructively with Steve Bannon.”
He made it clear he was speaking for himself, not for the </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.dignitatishumanae.com/index.php/home/">Institute for Human Dignity</a>, a conservative Catholic group that he founded, and insisted that he shared the pope’s goals of ensuring peace and ending poverty, just not his ideas on how to achieve it.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="173" data-total-count="3406" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Bannon publicly articulated his worldview in remarks a few months after his meeting with Cardinal Burke, at a Vatican conference organized by Mr. Harnwell’s institute.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="219" data-total-count="3625" id="story-continues-5" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speaking via video feed from Los Angeles, Mr. Bannon, a Catholic, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world?utm_term=.pe3wPo6v9A#.yky2v0dLgo">held forth</a> against rampant secularization, the existential threat of Islam, and a capitalism that had drifted from the moral foundations of Christianity....</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="219" data-total-count="3625" id="story-continues-5" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nyt end</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="219" data-total-count="3625" id="story-continues-5" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">Bannon’s dark vision contrasts sharply with the sunny disposition of a pope who has chided “sourpusses” and “querulous and disillusioned pessimists.”</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">
</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">Bannon believes that “the Judeo-Christian West is in a crisis.” He calls for a return of “the church militant” who will “fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity,” which threatens to “completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years.”</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">
</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">Where Francis has insisted on dialogue with Muslims, Bannon points to “the long history of the Judeo-Christian West struggle against Islam” and reaches as far back as the eighth century to praise “forefathers” who defeated Islam on the battlefield and “kept it out of the world, whether it was at Vienna, or Tours, or other places.”</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">
</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">“See what’s happening,” Bannon insists, “and you will see we’re in a war of immense proportions.”</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">
</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">Pope issues stinging criticism of Burma's treatment of Rohingyas Embed Share Play Video1:05</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">The pope has issued a strong criticism of Burma's treatment of the minority Rohingya people. (Reuters)</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">Bannon offered these comments in 2014 to the Institute for Human Dignity, an ultra-traditionalist group based in Rome and allied with some of Francis’s sharpest internal critics. They include Cardinal Raymond Burke, who has been so tough on Francis that he had to deny he was accusing the pontiff of heresy.</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">
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</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">The New York Times’ Jason Horowitz put Bannon’s Catholic project front and center this week with a Page 1 story reporting that during a 2014 visit to Rome for the canonizations of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII, Bannon met and “bonded” with Burke.</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">
</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">Neither Bannon nor Trump (nor, for that matter, Burke) is likely to dent Francis’s immense popularity with American Catholics. But Horowitz’s story brought into relief the struggle inside the church — and particularly within American Catholicism — over the pope’s stewardship, his emphasis on battling poverty, his insistence on the importance of welcoming immigrants and refugees, and his relative openness to modernity.</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">
</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">Massimo Faggioli, a professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University and a close student of the Vatican, argues that Francis has aroused a similar hostility among some on the Catholic right to that Barack Obama called forth on the right end of politics generally. Francis is the first pope from Latin America, and his vision of economics is inflected by his experiences there. Moreover, Francis accepts the reforming Second Vatican Council in the 1960s “in its entirety and is not just paying lip service.”</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">
</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">The vast majority of conservative American bishops and Catholic thinkers have, of course, pledged their allegiance to the pope. But Faggioli argues that many of them are often critical of Francis’s attitude toward doctrine (the pope, he says, is “pastoral, not ideological”) and toward Vatican II’s reforms, which shifted church teaching toward a greater respect for religious pluralism.</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">
</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">On the surface, some of Bannon’s economic views would seem to match Francis’s. In his speech broadcast to the group in Rome, Bannon spoke against “a brutal form of capitalism that is really about creating wealth and creating value for a very small subset of people.”...</div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">no lonk</div></span></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">--</font></span></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rc" data-hveid="30" data-ved="0ahUKEwjr78Dv6rXSAhUE6WMKHd25CesQFQgeKAEwAQ" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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