In Italy on Sunday, the sweaty billionaire Peter Thiel gave a private lecture—the first in a series— 'exploring the concept of the Antichrist,' per Reuters, which broke the story. ...
American Evangelicals don’t support Israel because they’re big fans of the Jewish people or value democracy in the Middle East. They support Israel because Jews are essential characters in their End Times horror movie."
~ Greg Olear
"And that’s the problem when individuals with real power—folks like Peter Thiel and Pete Hegseth, Mike Huckabee and Mike Johnson—genuinely believe in this Apocalypse claptrap; they have some ability to see the prophecies fulfilled. True Believers have a vested interest in there being a gigantic war in the Middle East, where Russia and Iran and the Arab States invade Israel;" (continued in /3)
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"they want that more than anything, because it heralds the Second Coming. The Rapture is so close, they can taste it. The last thing we want to do is give these crackpots free rein."
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"The appearance of Thiel on the Vatican’s doorstep has raised eyebrows, given the tensions between Thiel’s thinking and that of Pope Leo XIV. ...
So far, two Catholic institutions have distanced themselves from Thiel’s Rome lectures. The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelicum, denied initial reports that it would host the lectures."
~ Christopher Lamb
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/europe/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl
"The Angelicum is where the Rev. Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo, studied for a doctoral thesis in the 1980s.
The Thiel lectures are being organized jointly by the Vincenzo Gioberti Cultural Association — which aims to renew Italian political culture and make 'the restoration of Catholicism as the cornerstone of national identity' — and the Cluny Institute, which is based at the Catholic University of America in Washington."
“'The Catholic University of America is not sponsoring or hosting an event featuring Peter Thiel this month in Rome,' a spokesperson for the university told CNN. 'The Cluny Project is an independent initiative incubated at the University.'”
"Responding to his arrival in Italy, Il Messaggero quotes an essay by the Catholic theologian Father Paolo Benanti, originally published in Le Grand Continent, in which the priest critiqued the self-styled prophet’s bleak message as depicting a society 'incapable of self-government' in which 'the only alternative to apocalypse would be a technocratic order imposed by an elite of rulers.'”
~ Joe Sommerlad
"He continued: 'In this vision, democracy understood as the self-government of equal citizens is already dead – and all that remains, in the darkness of a data center, is the clinical management of its corpse.'
Benanti considers Thiel’s speaking tour 'a prolonged act of heresy against liberal consensus: a challenge to the very foundations of civil coexistence,' Il Messaggero concludes."
"Father Benanti said that Mr. Thiel — a venture capitalist who played major roles in the formation of PayPal; Facebook; and Palantir, a software and data-analysis firm — was attempting to accelerate the decline of liberal democracy to make it easier for his companies to operate."
~ Elisabetta Povoledo
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/europe/peter-thiel-rome-antichrist-catholics.html
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