Fascinating Dynamic

In a recent comment I pointed out that most of Trump's legal advisers--certainly the most prominent--are conservative Catholic lawyers. To include his longtime political adviser, Kellyanne Conway, to whom to little credit is given. Also Mick Mulvaney. Other names on that list? Try these: Don McGahn, Leonard Leo, Emmett Flood, Pat Cipollone, Bill Barr. I don't doubt that there are others. At least several of these folks are associated with Opus Dei. They're all super competent and have served Trump as well as if not better than any other group in the administration.

Who else has heard that Jorge Bergoglio--he dresses in white and lives in Vatican City--supported Hillary Clinton against Trump in 2016? Not just with words, but with cash infusions. I've been hearing that all along. So now Greg Rubini--yep, that Greg Rubini--has a long thread that starts out like this:

1. by the way:
not just the Italian Government,
also the Vatican was involved in the SpyGate on Trump.1. by the way:
not just the Italian Government,
also the Vatican was involved in the SpyGate on Trump.

There's not much of actual news in the thread--it's mostly about Obama connections to former Italian PM Matteo Renzi, a favorite of Bergoglio. Still, people like Ciaramella and Comey enter in, which is interesting. They both attended a big do that Obama threw for Renzi in October, 2016. Obama has since met with Renzi (also in retirement) in Italy, and of course John Durham has been earning frequent flyer miles traveling between the US and Italy.

UPDATE: Opus Dei's Pope

Within the past week the Italian website InfoVaticana published an interview with Mariano Fazio, the Vicar General of Opus Dei--which is to say, the #2 guy at Opus Dei. Fazio took the occasion to harshly criticize the members of Opus Dei who have signed the recent Filial Correction. That would include Dr. Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg, although only Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, former president of the Institute of Works for Religion (IOR, the Vatican Bank), was mentioned by name. With regard to the Filial Correction, Fazio set forth this blanket position--one which would condemn any number of saints of the past: 

"Any faithful, bishop, cardinal, lay person has the right to tell the pope what he sees fit for the good of the Church, but it seems to me that he has no right to do so publicly and to scandalize the whole Church with these manifestations of disunity."

Fazio specifically included Gotti Tedeschi--as well as all the other signatories:

"I think he was wrong, too, like the others who signed."

Fazio even put forth the tired argument that Bergoglio hasn't actually changed any doctrine--as if Bergoglio's Cultural Marxist tactics somehow immunize him from criticism for the predictable results. "Feed my lambs," and if the lambs are fed poison, well, they're still being fed, right? No one, according to Fazio, would have a right to criticize the shepherd publicly.

This is, I think, a significant development. Opus Dei has taken an "under the radar" approach to Bergoglio from the very beginning--even allowing an Opus Dei member, Greg Burke, to serve as Bergoglio's spokesman. The Three Monkey approach. But of course, this under the radar approach is insufficient for Modernist revolutionaries in the long run. For Modernist revolutionaries push always comes to shove and the question posed in the old union song becomes theirs: Which side are you on?