Posted on 04/18/2023 7:49:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Virginia Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine gave the FBI his approval to investigate Catholic parishes in his own state on Monday.
When asked by a local ABC affiliate about the FBI’s Richmond division infiltrating Catholic communities to spy on the church for alleged extremism, Kaine called the revelations a misunderstanding.
“I think the key is communication,” Kaine told ABC13. “If the FBI has a concern like that, then go to the church leaders and say, ‘Hey look, we have a concern and we don’t want your members to get unwittingly caught up in something.'”
Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin blew the whistle on the agency’s Richmond office investigating the Catholic Church with undercover informants in February. The FBI, Seraphin wrote, “would like to protect Virginians from the threat of ‘white supremacy,’ which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass.”
“The document assesses with ‘high confidence’ the FBI can mitigate the threat of Radical-Traditionalist Catholics by recruiting sources within the Catholic Church,” Seraphin warned.
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House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee responded to the news with a subpoena to FBI Director Christopher Wray earlier this month. “We know the FBI, relying on information derived from at least one undercover employee, sought to use local religious organizations as ‘new avenues for tripwire and source development,'” Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio wrote in the subpoena cover letter.
Kaine said Monday that the FBI has been running similar surveillance of American Muslims.
“We’ve done the same thing for years working in tandem with mosques because there have been groups that have tried to target or radicalize, especially young people,” the senator said.
Despite the FBI’s targeting of Catholics, U.S. bishops remained silent.
“The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops is a powerful organization, with a 2018 budget of more than $200 million, much of it from federal grants and contracts,” The Federalist’s Evita Duffy-Alfonso reported in February. “What has the Catholic Church hierarchy had to say in the seven days since the slanderous leak? Nothing.”
The conference never responded to The Federalist’s inquiries. Bishop Barry Knestout was the only U.S. bishop to speak out on the issue one week after the February whistleblower report.
Tim “Gave his approval”??? Wow...what power a Senator has!/sarc!!
Now that is a court case involving separation of church and state I would like to see! The FBI imbedding itself in the affairs of churches?? It is less about investigations and more about manipulating the churches’ practices from within!
Nope. He’s protected them.
Have fun. Now that Passover is over, I can enjoy some popcorn.
I just get this historical recollection whereby both the Catholics and Anglicans were enemies of the state in Great Britain. They had to worship in secret and avoid the prying eyes of the state.
I bet there are police actively undercover in Dungeons and Dragons groups.
Bookmarking for FR keywords.
Kaine is still the same leftist rat he was when he was governor. He makes weasels seem like poodles and vultures seem like parakeets.
Other than that, he’s still the same piece of crap he always was.
Light in the loafers Timmy the Clown once again amuses us with his highjinks.
Luke 5:31: Jesus answered, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Unlike conservative Protestants, most traditional Catholics do not walk away from their church and form a new denomination.
They come on FR and piss&moan about how bad their leadership is!
But - By GOD!!! - they ain't no filthy PROT!
What kind are FR’s?
{... a man who has an open marriage!}
Oh??
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tim-kaine-open-marriage/
Bingo!!!!!!!!!
The FBI is corrupt.
Trust at your own peril.
I observe that American FReepers regardless of religion come on FR and piss&moan about how bad their secular leadership is. I don't see many of those FReepers decamping for other countries ... and those who do are frequently sneered at for it.
If the sneering leftists at “snopes” say it’s false, it’s probably true.
true
feel free to post your own evidence.
< shrug >
I don’t trust snopes. That is all.
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