Hogwarts vs the globalist pope

PJMedia writes:

Like something out of a Bond villain's backstory, Steve Bannon has won a bid to take over an Italian monastery in the mountains of Italy built by Pope Innocent III in 1204. He plans to turn it into an academy to defend Christendom and Western culture. The sprawling castle encompasses several buildings, with hundreds of rooms, a guest house built into a rock, and a library with 36,000 volumes. Nicholas Farrell of the Spectator visited it and came away feeling he had been in a storybook. "[I]t made me think of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the Harry Potter books," he wrote.

Hogwarts saving the world. That's an interesting concept, although I would suggest the metaphor of Athanasius contra mundum would be a better way to put it.

and although the meme is that Bannon is alt/r and a fascist, the Spectator points out that he is closer to the left when he spouts populism.

For Bannon,...these things show that the Pope is on the side of the elite and not the little guy. His solution? Pope Francis needs to be more left wing:

‘His greatest failings outside the spiritual and theological are siding with the globalist elites against the citizens of the nations of the world. Memo to the Pope — if you want to cultivate a media image of working man’s champion, great; but you then actually have to stand up for the little guy, and not with the rich and powerful who drive the UN and the EU in favor of their own internationalist agendas at the little guy’s expense. 

it makes one wonder who is funding this? From the Spectator article:

 Its backers are private – mainly Americans and Brits, who are Catholics and Jews

more HERE. and HERE.

and the name of Cardinal Burke came up: if you read the Catholic sycophants, he is the most hated Cardinal. He sin? He dared to question the Pope (see the Dubia controversy). A modern Athanasius indeed.

As a result, the Vatican fired him twice and the word is out not to let him speak at your meetings.

and for good measure, he also has been (rhetorically) spat on by the Washington Post and several others in the MSM. OnePeterFive analyzes what was behind this coordinated attack, including his association with Bannon and his defense of traditional marriage.

From a non religious angle, this appears to be Bannon vs the elite, and he is trying to educate the Pope on his populist agenda.

because when the elites try to silence the worries of the little guy, by ignoring them or by ridiculing them, you don't really stop their worries or resentment.

as one Catholic leader put it:

Peaceful change is possible: In the USA, that was how you got Trump. Here in the Philippines, that is how we got Duterte. In the UK, that is how they got Brexit.

but there is an alternative: as the riots in France are showing in the headlines.

Sort of a Howard Beale moment, but with Facebook:  thousands of French people saying: I'm mad as hell and not going to take it any more. (reference is this 1976 film Network).



However, I have one comment about this from an Asian standpoint:
and I wonder if Bannon (or the Pope) has noticed:

The church is not the same as western civilization. The eastern church is more mystical than the western church, which pushes action over mysticism (hence western people have to turn to new age type gurus to find out about the inner search for God).

Indeed, the eastern churches were huge in the past before they were decimated by Islam and later communism. But never mind.

But both eastern and western Christianity has side effects: including pushing the dangerous idea that God is God and Caesar is Caesar, but that not even Caesar is above God's laws.

 That is a revolutionary thought to countries where Stalin/Hitler/Mao (or in today's China, Xi) or the European Union bosses are supposed to be the ultimate authority.