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An FBI informant inside the Catholic Church, to keep tabs on all those Latin mass aficionados?
American Thinker ^ | 11 Apr, 2023 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/11/2023 4:27:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Seems this operation was a lot bigger than just an errant policy paper from a local field office.

When news broke a few weeks ago about the FBI targeting the Catholic Church's Latin mass enthusiasts as part of the great Joe Biden hunt for "extremists," outrage ensured, and the bureau moved quickly to dismiss the matter as the doing of an errant field office, which put out a bum policy paper. It certainly wasn't the FBI's policy to target Americans for their beliefs, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified, adding that the miscreants in the Richmond local field office would be given refresher courses to put them back on the straight and narrow. Never mind that they'd committed a violation of the First Amendment rights of American citizens under the Constitution. The refresher courses would fix everything.

Well, now it turns out there was more to the matter than simply a bad policy paper from the FBI's local yokels out in the Richmond backwoods who didn't understand the First Amendment.

According to National Review:

As part of its effort to identify extremists in the Catholic Church, the FBI recruited at least one “undercover employee” to “develop sources among the clergy and church leadership,” Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) revealed Monday.

Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena demanding FBI director Christopher Wray testify and provide more information to Congress about the federal agency’s intelligence-gathering initiative targeting Catholic Americans.

Meaning, it was more than a policy paper, it was an anti-Catholic operation that was advanced pretty far along, complete with the recruiting of at least one informant.

Who the heck was this informant for this illegal act, how'd they find this character, how did the FBI make the recruitment pitch, and how much taxpayer money...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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To: Texas_Guy
Read about what the former gay mayor of Houston did. She demanded copies of sermons before they were preached from the pulpit? That is the kind of Democrat we are dealing with.

I had completely forgotten about that. That was a huge issue.

21 posted on 04/11/2023 7:57:03 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo

And Ed Young of 2nd Baptist church refused loudly.


22 posted on 04/11/2023 7:58:09 AM PDT by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder if they target churches that talk in tongues.


23 posted on 04/11/2023 7:58:54 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: realcleanguy
The odd thing is, Latin mass is attended by mostly Mexican and South Amercian immigrants.

I'm curious as to your basis for that claim. My personal experience with Latin Mass in several cities is that the congregation is mostly White Honkeys, with black and hispanic congregants somewhat UNDER-represented relative to their fraction of the general American population.

24 posted on 04/11/2023 8:04:25 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: escapefromboston

I think they’re more worried about those old ladies’ children and numerous grandchildren ...


25 posted on 04/11/2023 8:05:50 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Is the SPLC behind this ?


26 posted on 04/11/2023 8:45:54 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MtnClimber

Recall the Obama Administrations outright attempts to co-opt the RC Church?


27 posted on 04/11/2023 3:09:12 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: NorthMountain

When I lived in Southern California. You must have missed the first part of the sentence


28 posted on 04/11/2023 6:41:58 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: realcleanguy

The word “California” is entirely absent from Post #7 ...

Thank you for the clarification, though. That does make sense.


29 posted on 04/11/2023 7:36:55 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

My bad, it was another post in the same string
It depends on where you live. When I lived in SoCal, it was mostly Latin Americans in the Latin mass. No Latin mass where I live now. Does Joe serve Satan? Absolutely. In fact his stance on defending trans rights over normal healthy intelligent people demonstrates that. the god that trans people serve is a kin to Satan, who is depicted with male genitalia and breasts, with horns. And it is a god of sexuality and of immorality, who is aggressive. And we see that in these people as of late. Demanding rights, and wanting to groom children. Much like Sodom and Gomorrah. I have to say that just when I think it can’t get worse in the US, it gets worse. I do know within this trans group is a sub group calling themselves “Minor attracted person” another name for pedophile. They are trying to get acceptance and recognition as normal behavior. Which is part of the drag queens grooming kids and schools grooming kids. Just when you think they can’t go lower, they do.


30 posted on 04/11/2023 7:55:21 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: realcleanguy

Agree re. Pedo Joe and the perverts.

About Latin Mass ... probably reflects the local population. SoCal is much more heavily hispanic than WV, VA, or OH.


31 posted on 04/11/2023 8:05:47 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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