Before I go into details about the story, I need to spell out traditional Catholicism.
Those described by the FBI office as “Traditional Catholics” are those who do not live by Vatican II and are not in Communion with the Vatican.
However! Those still living by some aspects of the Church before Vatican II are described as traditional Catholics, especially those attached to the Latin Mass.
Fact is, Church teachings and the Church have not changed.
I’ve noticed many young Catholics have adopted Catholic traditions before Vatican II, like the Latin Mass and wearing veils to Mass. I’m not young, but I’ve done it as well. Females like me love wearing a veil to Mass. We do not show our shoulders at Mass. We dress modestly, covering a lot of our bodies. We even cover our hair when we go out.
We love the Latin Mass, which is something Pope Francis is restricting.
Apparently, traditional Catholicism is… radical. The FBI Richmond office considers the traditionalists are a danger on par with terrorists and white supremacists.
Something tells me they don’t separate the actual Traditional Catholics and us, who love some of the traditions.
It doesn’t matter. The traditionalists and the rest of us are not radicals.
If you’re a Radical Traditionalist Catholic (RTC), then WHITE SUPREMACIST. Do you prefer the Latin Mass? White supremacist. Do you prefer to partake in other Catholic traditions pre-Vatican II? You’re a racist extremist.
FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin wrote about the eight-page document at UncoverDC.com. He also posted some of the documents on Twitter:
Ultimately, there may be limits to the level of engagement between RTCs and other far-white nationalists. For example, many RTCs consider other forms of Christianity to be heretical and an over-emphasis on white nationalism may be off-putting to RTCs of different ethnicities and countries of origin. Conversely, deep-seated anti-Catholicism remains a characteristic of many far-right white nationalists. Nonetheless, the current trend of RMVE [racially/ethnically motivated violent extremist] interest in RTC ideology provides new opportunities to mitigate the RMVE threat through outreach to traditionalist parishes and the development of sources with the placement and access to report on RMVEs seeking to use RTC on social media sites or places of worship as facilitation platforms to promote violence.
Except…Pope Francis voicing his opinions on climate change and whatnot doesn’t change Catholic teaching. So overall, we do not care. We do care that he’s restricting the Latin Mass, but we’re not losing our minds over it, nor is it inching us to terrorism.
The FBI headquarters retracted and disavowed the document:
The FBI tells the Caller that the document, put forward by the Richmond field office, “does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI” and that the Bureau will be conducting an internal review.“Upon learning of the document, FBI Headquarters quickly began taking action to remove the document from FBI systems and conduct a review of the basis for the document,” the agency told the Caller. “The FBI is committed to sound analytic tradecraft and to investigating and preventing acts of violence and other crimes while upholding the constitutional rights of all Americans and will never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity.”
Who did the Richmond FBI office trust? The Southern Poverty Law Center, of course! Because we all know that group is so reliable.
The memo also draws attention to The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), which is not in Communion with the Vatican. The FBI claims the Catholic media outlet Church Militant has grown closer to Nick Fuentes’ group America First organization.
Church Militant denied the relationship:
“The FBI report is based on ‘reporting’ by far-left extremists group and media outlets which clearly demonstrate zero understanding of Catholic theology. Those voluminous errors then found their way into this FBI report where flat out false conclusions are drawn,” CM said in a statement to the Caller. “Church Militant (and all faithful Catholics) in no way hates women, blacks, jews, immigrants or anyone else we may be accused of hating. To disagree with social or political points of view does not signify ‘hate’. It signifies disagreement.”
The FBI office cited two articles from Salon.
The best citation? That hilarious article in The Atlantic that describes the Rosary as an extremist weapon.
So the FBI Richmond office got its information from the Southern Poverty Law Center and three left-wing media organizations.
The FBI has not done a damn thing about the hundreds of Catholic Churches targeted after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. They’ve only charged two people in connection with an attack on some pregnancy centers in Florida.
There have been 275 attacks on Catholic Churches since 2020. There have been 118 since last May when someone leaked the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. I wrote about those stats in late January. The number probably went up.
This motivates me to keep violence and threats against Catholics in everyone’s faces.
Here’s a video of the Latin Mass.
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