In his recent Remnant Underground, Michael Matt highlighted Senator Josh Hawley’s opposition to the FBI’s targeting of Traditional Catholics.
“Now we know that in fact, FBI agents did approach a priest and a choir director to ask them to inform on parishioners . . . Good heavens, Director, this is one of the most outrageous targetings – you have mobilized your division, the most powerful law enforcement division in the world, against traditionalist Catholics . . . your memo labels traditional Catholics as racially, and ethnically, motivated violent extremists in need of investigation . . . You have repeatedly said ‘we don’t target churches, we don’t list churches,’ [but] they’re listed in the memo.”
None of us expect that the FBI’s operations against Traditional Catholics will stop; but even if they stopped tomorrow, meaningful damage has already been done. Our own government. treats us as potential domestic terrorists on the basis of our religious beliefs. If the FBI conducted such operations against Jewish Synagogues, they would be considered anti-Semitic. But there is no such stigma associated with persecuting Catholics, so the FBI apparently does not hesitate to do so. ….
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