Next year, a Catholic-inspired organisation called the Dignitatis Humanae Institute is launching two new academies to support Christian politicians.

The aim for one of these academies is ‘to institutionalise the thought, philosophy, intuition of Steve Bannon’, according to its director Benjamin Harnwell.

The DHI is linked to prominent members of the Catholic Church.

Why is Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, so interested in Italy?

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