{"id":81344,"date":"2026-03-13T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81344"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:09:23","slug":"thiel-brings-his-antichrist-lectures-to-the-vaticans-doorstep-and-catholic-institutions-back-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/thiel-brings-his-antichrist-lectures-to-the-vaticans-doorstep-and-catholic-institutions-back-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiel Brings His Antichrist Lectures To The Vatican\u2019s Doorstep, And Catholic Institutions Back Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican\u2019s backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/peter-thiel\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Peter Thiel.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The invitation-only conference in Rome, from Sunday to Wednesday, has proven so controversial that the Catholic universities initially associated with it have all denied official involvement. Initially, the lectures were reportedly going to be held the Pontifical St. Thomas Aquinas University, the Dominican university in Rome known colloquially as the Angelicum. It is best known these days as the place where a young priest named Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote his\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-augustine-vatican-authority-908662f6e1ffaa976c92f9b4ff5cdb64\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">canon law doctoral thesis.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 But as word began to circulate&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773400163\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Thiel Brings His Antichrist Lectures To The Vatican\u2019s Doorstep, And Catholic Institutions Back Away\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican\u2019s backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}