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Every day there\u2019s some sort conspiracy theory being aired by right-wing Catholics on social media involving the globalist agenda of the Pope\u2019s UN/Chinese/Masonic/Soros foundation puppet-masters. No surprise, perhaps, given the fervour with which the Pope promotes a globalist agenda while his diplomats kowtow to Beijing. Some left-wing Catholics are into the conspiracy business, too: in their imaginations it\u2019s the feisty conservative broadcaster EWTN taking the role of the Soros Foundation.
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\nCatholic pundits with furious views have become a major headache for the Vatican \u2013 one it richly deserves, you might think, given what Cardinal George Pell describes as the \u2019Technicolour corruption\u2019 lurking in the Curia, most of which goes unreported by a tame Vatican press corps.
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\nBut is there any excuse for promoting conspiracy theories? Of course not, especially if a fantasy could have serious consequences for society. So we need to take a close look at the conservative Catholic campaign against coronavirus vaccines, which is informed not only by extreme moral scruples (certain vaccines make use of a \u2018cell line\u2019 derived from an abortion 50 years ago, something the Catholic Church isn\u2019t too worried about) but also absurd claims about the vaccines changing our DNA.\xa0
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\nEd Condon, editor of The Pillar, a new Catholic investigative outfit, joins me for this episode, which begins with some rather startling \u2019news\u2019 about the arrest of Pope Francis amid a shootout at the Vatican.