Posted on 02/26/2023 6:11:43 PM PST by marshmallow
Suspended FBI agent and whistleblower Steve Friend said the priest who normally distributes the ashes was told to stay away this year due to an unspecified 'legal issue.'
CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Chicago Field Office appears to have axed the longstanding tradition of a priest distributing ashes to employees this Ash Wednesday.
Steve Friend, an FBI agent suspended for blowing the whistle on the agency’s “overzealous” treatment of Americans connected with the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, shared on Twitter an image of a Tuesday email to Chicago Field Office employees announcing the unavailability of ashes to mark the beginning of Lent.
“The Chicago Field Office will be unable to offer ashes tomorrow, but if you are interested in receiving them, as an FBI employee you are entitled to religious compensatory time,” the email reads.
According to Friend, the priest who would’ve distributed the ashes told employees that the FBI “instructed him to stay away due to a ‘legal issue.'” It is not clear what the legal issue could be, or whether the office’s Ash Wednesday tradition was suspended indefinitely or only for this year.
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They’re probably afraid of garlic, the cross and sunlight.
War on Catholics.
Our government is atheist now. And they literally put out a memo last month that observant Catholics should be placed under surveillance.
Tragic.
Why would a government office be doing this sort of thing in the first place? And what self-respecting Catholic priest would ever venture into an FBI office anyway?
The priest also has to inform that no Catholic can continue working for a government that outright defies God.
Christianity and the Biden administration mix like oil and water. The “devout Christian” in the White House is a false prophet in the most literal sense.
Why would the gestapo want a Priest in the building?
Buffalo Bills that are infesting the women’s restrooms- they offend me completely and they need to be gone.
Hmmm...smoke out the believers?
It’s about 2 miles to the nearest Catholic Church.
5-6 minutes by car, 19 mins by bus.
Does the FBI have chaplains like the military?
Yep. Sick and evil.
“And what self-respecting Catholic priest would ever venture into an FBI office anyway?”
To exorcise it?
O’Bama is their new G-d. His buddy, Holder is the Holy Smokes.
Wooden stakes too.
Germans came for the Jews: Democrats are coming for the Christians. History repeats itself
The SEPTIC TANK that is TODAY’S FBI needs a considerable cleaning of the slime and sludge that is clogging it. A fresh start could then begin.
When I first began working at the Safeway grocery store, we actually were closed on Easter Sunday. It was not any kind of paid holiday, we just honored a zillion years of history. This was in Menlo Park, California, 20 miles south of San Francisco. Now, they celebrate indigenous day instead of Columbus.
The secret Safeway?
Why would a government agency ever have had reason to provide ashes on Ash Wednesday?
Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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