Headline Roundup August 3, 2017
Vatican Criticizes Trump Supporters
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Close associates of Pope Francis are publicly criticizing Catholics for creating "alliances of hate" with evangelical Christians to support President Trump. Steve Bannon came under particular scrutiny, with the pope's confidantes asserting that Trump's chief strategist is a "supporter of an apocalyptic geopolitics", an enemy of climate change, and has capitalized on fears of Muslims and immigrants with his emphasis on "walls and purifying deportations."
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Pope Francis associates target Steve Bannon as 'supporter of an apocalyptic geopolitics'
Washington Examiner
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Two associates of Pope Francis accused conservative American Catholics of creating an alliance of "hate" with evangelical Christians to support President Trump, according to a report Wednesday.
Top allies of Pope Francis criticize religious Trump supporters
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An article in a Vatican-reviewed journal released this week blasted evangelical and Catholic allies of President Trump for attempting to impose a "theocratic" worldview and practicing "apocalyptic geopolitics."
A Vatican Shot Across the Bow for Hard-Line U.S. Catholics
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Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican’s good graces.
