From Catholic Schoolboy to Counselor-in-Chief: Steve Bannon’s Rise to Power

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From Catholic Schoolboy to Counselor-in-Chief: Steve Bannon’s Rise to Power

Role of religion

Bannon has been critical of the Catholic Church for its stance on immigration and last year berated Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for "social-justice Catholicism."

That said, he is a loyal Catholic.

In the summer of 2014, Bannon, participated via Skype in a Vatican conference on poverty hosted by a conservative religious think tank seeking to promote "active participation of the Christian faith in the public square" — that is, as explained by its founder Benjamin Harnwell, promoting "pro-life, pro-traditional family" values.

"We're at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict, of which if the people in this room, the people in the church, do not bind together and really form what I feel is an aspect of the church militant, to really be able to not just stand with our beliefs, but to fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity that's starting, that will completely eradicate everything that we've been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years," he told the conference.

Bannon also spoke of being part of a "global tea party movement," a right-wing movement of middle-class, working people who say they are tired of being dictated to by a capitalist elite that treats them as mere economic commodities.

His message has been consistent for years: He has promised to "hammer" the left-wing and mainstream Republicans.

"The only way to take the country back from a left-wing establishment is to fight," he told conservatives a few years ago, and it's a battle that he warns won't necessarily be about "sunshine and patriots."

"It's going to be people who want to fight," he said.

In 2016, Bannon took a leave of absence from Breitbart in order to run Trump's presidential campaign, and said he has had nothing to do with Breitbart since then.

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