October 8, 2019, Strategic
Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/08/plot-overthrow-pope/
The
moment that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected the
first Jesuit Roman Catholic pontiff in papal history, the political long knives
aimed at Pope Francis I came out of the shadows of the Vatican. From the outset
of his papacy, Francis found himself dealing with his right-wing predecessor,
Pope Benedict XVI – a rarity in papal history – who insisted on remaining
domiciled in an apartment on Vatican grounds. Benedict has not remained in
quiet retirement but has conspired with Francis’s politically influential
enemies in the Vatican, Italy, the United States, and other countries.
Donald
Trump, who has publicly criticized Francis, has not interfered as his
surrogates, who include former White House strategist Steve Bannon; Cardinal
Raymond Burke, the former Archbishop of St. Louis; Archbishop Carlo
Maria Viganò, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States; and others have
conspired with the powerful fascist-oriented Opus Dei sect of the church to
undermine Francis’s authority. Trump’s eyes and ears inside the Vatican – US
ambassador to the Holy See Callista Bisek Gingrich – is the wife of Newt
Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, a
convert to Catholicism, and a major Trump political ally.
Francis,
a former bar bouncer in a tough working-class neighborhood of Buenos Aires, has
not been a shrinking violet when it comes
to fighting back against his right-wing enemies. Francis’s Italian parents were
escaping Benito Mussolini’s fascist rule when
