text: You're missing the point. No one is seriously suggesting Bannon is a conspirator in a plot to overthrow Pope Francis. Straw man.
  
  The point is there's an ultra-conservative, Burkean faction in the Catholic Church with ideological ties to Bannon and the "alt-right." Further, this faction represents one vector in a trans-national, ideological realignment toward authoritarianism, ethno-nationalism, Islamophobia and patriarchy. and away from democracy, pluralism and egalitarianism. Hence the pivot among conservative Christians to the former font of all evil, Russia. And under what glorious banner has this shift occurred? Anti-abortion/anti-feminism, anti-LGBT rights and white supremacy.
  
  Anyone care to dispute any of this?
  
  I'd never read Emma-Kate Symons and took some of her piece as rhetorical. Apparently we live in a moment where it's necessary to point out that neo-Nazism is bad and the church should have nothing to do with it. Good for her.