Well, and Doctor Seuss.
Posted on 06/05/2025 8:12:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Biden-era FBI’s efforts targeting traditionalist Catholics were far more extensive than previously known and involved personnel from multiple field offices, according to newly revealed documents that contradict former FBI director Christopher Wray’s congressional testimony.
The FBI’s focus on traditionalist Catholics was revealed in February 2023, when a former agent published a leaked memo produced by the bureau’s Richmond, Va. field office warning against the emerging threat posed by “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology.”
The Richmond memo was largely based on the findings of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has a record of maligning conservative groups as “extremist.” The memo was distributed to more than 1,000 FBI employees but was later retracted after a public backlash.
When then-FBI director Christopher Wray was called before Congress to answer for the memo, he insisted that it was the product of a single field office and did not lead to any actual investigative operations.
But new FBI records obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley suggest the bureau’s targeting of traditionalist Catholics was more widespread than Wray indicated.
In addition to the memo, the FBI produced over a dozen documents and five attachments using anti-Catholic terminology, Grassley found. A second anti-Catholic memo was drafted and never published because of the backlash to the initial Richmond memo.
“These documents reveal the same day the Richmond memo was made public, the FBI searched to determine how many FBI products used similar terminology. It determined at least ‘13 documents and 5 attachments’ used the terminology ‘radical traditionalist Catholic.’ The production also shows these reports also relied, in part, on the thoroughly-discredited and biased SPLC as a source,” Grassley said.
A congressional investigation previously revealed the involvement of other FBI offices in the Richmond memo and agents’ use of left-wing organizations as sources, but the existence of other anti-Catholic documents and the scale of the memo’s distribution were not previously known.
Information from the Louisville field office influenced a presentation put together by a Richmond analyst that focused on traditional Catholic values and found “radical traditional” Catholicism’s beliefs to be “[c]omparable to Islamist ideology.”...SNIP
The FBI should now put the same effort into investigating democRATs in all areas of government.
Yank his pension. He lied to Congress on multiple occasions.
Pronto.
The document being discussed:
In fact, our woke, marxist, corrupt FBI is correct
Traditional Latin Mass / Orthodox Catholics ARE a threat to them and their deep-state ideology. We’ve seen it throughout history - the state always fears and suppresses believers.
Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.” John 19:10-11
Still no accountability in DC. And that’s not going to change.
DC doesn’t punish DC — regardless of which party is in power.
Question: How many radical traditionalist Catholic ideology folks have chopped off heads in the last 5 decades? Hijacked aircraft? Hijacked cruise ships? Flown aircraft into buildings? Planted bombs at marathons? Driven trucks into Christmas markets? Go on stabbing rampages in trains?
Hint: If you F#$& with Catholics or Bubba and his pickup truck long enough, you can “make them into a threat.”
But they are not naturally a threat. In fact, they are naturally the type of folks which join the FBI (Hoover era) or military and do the bleeding for this country.
Maybe Biden ordered it to win favor with Pope Francis.
Radical-traditionalist Catholics compose a small minority of overall Roman Catholic adherents and are separate and distinct from “traditionalist Catholics” who prefer the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-Vatican II teachings and traditions, but without the more extremist ideological beliefs and violent rhetoric.
Vatican II took place from 1962 to 1965 and essentially shaped the modern Roman Rite Catholic Church. It was intended to help the church respond to global cultural changes in the aftermath of World War II and resulted in significant reforms to the liturgy, attitudes toward non-Christian religions, roles and responsibilities of the laity, views on religious freedom, etc.
In dictatorships they always go after religions and free speech. The democrat party is on that course.
That Men do not learn very much from history is one of the most important lessons of history - Aldous Huxley
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