“Le Cercle also maintained deep ties to the Vatican, a formidable player in Cold War geopolitics. The group exploited the Vatican’s global networks to push its anti-communist agenda, with some members linked to synarchist and ultraconservative factions within the Church. The group’s efforts blended religion with realpolitik, dressing up blatant political manipulation as righteous moral crusades.”
Well, if this so-called “Le Cercle” once allied with the Vatican to push an “anti-communist agenda” “ultra-conservativism,” that alliance is obviously dead. Exhibit A: Pope Bergoglio, an unapologetic man of the left who never met a leftist he didn’t love nor a conservative he didn’t hate.