He said in his letter, which CBS News obtained, "White-Supremacist use of #Deus Vult and a return to medieval Catholicism, is to invoke the myth of a white Christian (i.e. Catholic) medieval past ...
In the modern day, the Jerusalem Cross and "Deus Vult" motto have transcended the Catholic Church in the Middle East and become global signifiers of Christian evangelization, identity, and history.
“Deus Vult,” meaning “God wills it,” was the motto for Catholic crusader knights fighting to reclaim the Holy Land in the 11th century. The Jerusalem cross similarly originated as the ...