Politics

December 7, 2023

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Two Bishops Raise Concerns About Vatican Synod

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - Like many Catholic leaders, I have been paying close attention to the ongoing Synod on Synodality at the Vatican... And like many Catholic leaders, I have done so with considerable and growing trepidation... Thus, it was with interest that I recently read statements by two bishops who participated in the recent meetings—Bishop Robert Barron and Archbishop Anthony Fisher—in which the bishops both thoughtfully expressed a number of overlapping concerns about how the Synod is unfolding.

December 7, 2023

The FBI Still Thinks Pro-Life Catholics are Domestic Terrorists, by Tim Graham

By Tim Graham, LifeNews - After 9/11, leftist journalists passionately exposed the New York City Police Department doing surveillance of mosques to try to prevent violent Muslim extremism. By contrast, they largely yawned when it was leaked in February that the FBI’s office in Richmond, Virginia, discussed surveilling local Catholic churches to root out potential violent extremism from the “radical Catholics.”

December 7, 2023

State Of Texas Joins The Federalist, Daily Wire In Suing The Federal Censorship-Industrial Complex, by Joy Pullmann

By Joy Pullmann, Executive Editor, The Federalist - The U.S. State Department is violating the U.S. Constitution by funding technology to silence Americans who question government claims, says a lawsuit filed Tuesday by The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and the state of Texas... The three are suing to stop “one of the most audacious, manipulative, secretive, and gravest abuses of power and infringements of First Amendment rights by the federal government in American history,” says the lawsuit. It exposes federal censorship activities even beyond the dramatic discoveries in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case .....

December 6, 2023

House Report: FBI Continues to Consider Issuing a Warning About ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’, by Emily Mangiaracina

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews - A House Weaponization Committee report published Monday reveals that FBI employees are still discussing how to disseminate a bureau-wide memo identifying so-called “Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology” as a magnet for “violent extremists.”... The House Judiciary Committee yesterday shared the findings of its investigation in a bombshell memo issued by the FBI Richmond, Virginia Field Office earlier this year that targeted Catholics who attend the TLM for surveillance .....