There Are Limits

Despite his credentials as a pusher of pernicious untruths to further an authoritarian and persecutory agenda, to say nothing of his physical resemblance to a Renaissance catamite slightly shop-soiled by a decade or three of syphilis, the sometime Trumpster string-puller Steve Bannon is a Roman Catholic. Since falling out of favour with the head-tribble he has involved himself in the pedagogical machinations of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, which has been trying to take over an ancient monastery in Rome where it hopes to raise a new generation of gay-baiting crusaders against the infidel. Unfortunately, the law in Italy has proved obstructive, on the wholly unpredictable grounds that a religious institution backed by the likes of Steve Bannon may occasionally consider itself above its contractual obligations; and Bannon also alienated friends in the Vatican by alleging that an entire city full of eunuchs and paedophiles might also contain some specimens of the objectively disordered.