The entrance of the Monastery of Trisulti, where Stephen K. Bannon and Benjamin Harnwell hoped to launch a gladiator school for right-wing culture warriors. “Proceeding with the revocation is thus a duty,” an official at Italy’s culture ministry, Gianluca Vacca, said in a statement. Because of the involvement of the former White House strategist, the project has been controversial, and in recent months the Trisulti monastery has been the target of protests in the nearest village. (Ginevra Sammartino for The Washington Post)“[The project is] definitely going to work,” Harnwell told The Washington Post late last year. The planned academy had caused discontent even within Harnwell’s think tank, according to Politico, which quoted then-honorary president Cardinal Renato Maria Martino raising objections in a letter to Harnwell in January.

Source: Washington Post May 31, 2019 21:33 UTC