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FBI Dragged Catholic Family from Home at Gunpoint Over 15-Year-Old Son’s Memes

https://catholicvote.org/fbi-dragged-catholic-family-from-home-at-gunpoint-over-sons-memes/

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In an interview with The Daily Signal, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, specifically addressed the Justice Department’s targeting of pro-life and religious Americans, promising to “hold those responsible accountable for those actions.” Johnson discussed revelations that the FBI was investigating traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists and that the DOJ had targeted pro-life activists.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/11/01/speaker-johnson-slams-fbi-for-targeting-religious-americans/

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Eight members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence publicized a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding an explanation for the “Richmond memo,” which instructed field officers to target so-called “radical traditional Catholics.” The letter gives Wray until September 29 to report the steps he has taken to ensure unconstitutional processes like the memo will never happen again.

https://catholicvote.org/senate-intel-committee-demands-answers-from-fbi/

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Pope Francis says traditional Latin Mass was being used in an ideological way. So the crummy social gospel is not ideological?

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254268/pope-francis-says-traditional-latin-mass-was-being-used-in-an-ideological-way

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After CatholicVote announced its lawsuit against the FBI, multiple Catholic voices across the country weighed in. “This what happens when [the] FBI decided to ‘recruit sources’ [within] a Catholic Church in a country where we still NOMINALLY have a right to practice faith [without] our government prohibiting its free exercise,” said former FBI Agent Kyle Seraphin. Read more reactions here. https://catholicvote.org/catholic-leaders-respond-to-catholicvotes-fbi-lawsuit/

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CatholicVote, joined by Judicial Watch, is suing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice for information regarding the scandal of the federal agencies' alleged discriminatory targeting of Catholics. “We are demanding transparency from our government and are determined to uncover just how high up the anti-Catholic bigotry goes,” said CatholicVote President Brian Burch. https://catholicvote.org/catholicvote-sues-fbi-for-info-on-its-targeting-of-american-catholics/

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Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA, last week defended a recent FBI memo that targeted “radical-traditionalist” Catholics, claiming the agency was acting in Catholics’ best interests and that he has helped put the FBI in touch with bishops. “Kaine said the purpose of the investigation was actually to look into violent extremists who were targeting ‘radical traditionalist Catholics’ in an effort to recruit them,” reported ABC13, who spoke with the senator. https://catholicvote.org/tim-kaine-defends-fbi-efforts-to-surveil-catholic-parishes/

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‘A Grave Scandal’: The Administration Of The Second Catholic President Won’t Stop Targeting The Church, Experts Warn https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/16/biden-rosary-prop-administration-target-church/

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Assailants attacked churches 69 times in the first three months of 2023, which is a 288% increase, compared with 24 such acts during the same period last year. The anti-Christian assaults — which include arson, bomb threats, vandalism, and sacrilege — already affected churches in 29 states. https://headlineusa.com/church-attacks-nearly-triple-so-far-in-2023/

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, on Tuesday said he would propose a resolution to condemn calls to defund the Department of Justice and the FBI, but Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a Catholic, fired back: “I will attempt to amend it by adding language that condemns something that actually happened, DOJ & FBI trying to infiltrate Catholic parishes & cultivate ‘sources’ inside Catholic Churches.” https://catholicvote.org/schumer-moves-to-defend-federal-agencies/

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The FBI used at least one undercover agent to develop plans to cultivate “sources” in Catholic churches, according to internal documents obtained by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The FBI has sought to use Catholic churches as "new avenues for tripwire and source development," including at "mainline Catholic parishes” and among “local diocesan leadership,” the documents revealed. https://catholicvote.org/new-docs-fbi-sources-catholic-churches/

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The Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services is accusing Walter Reed National Military Medical Center of denying Catholic service members and veterans their right to practice their religion after it canceled a contract for pastoral care and issued a "cease and desist" order to a community of Catholic priests just days before Holy Week. "It is incomprehensible that essential pastoral care is taken away from the sick and the aged when it was so readily available," said Archbishop Timothy Broglio. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254054/broglio-blasts-walter-reed-for-putting-for-profit-firm-in-charge-of-catholic-pastoral-care

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Bishop Jeffrey Monforton of the Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio, ordered an immediate end to the Latin Mass on Franciscan University’s campus. “The Diocese of Steubenville is seeking to meet the pastoral needs of the faithful in accord with the norms, including the recent rescript, issued by the Holy See,” a spokesman for the diocese said. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253815/steubenville-bishop-bans-latin-mass-at-franciscan-university-effective-immediately

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More smearing "Popular prayer app pushes 'fringe elements on the Catholic right' into mainstream"

https://www.rawstory.com/hallow-app/

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The week of March 1, 2023, , members of the Senate Judiciary Committee confronted Attorney General Merrick Garland in a hearing that focused heavily on the Justice Department and the FBI targeting, surveilling, and arresting Catholics and other pro-life Americans while failing to prosecute violent crimes against pro-life organizations and churches. But according to media analyst Tim Graham, none of the major corporate media outlets covered the day’s fiery hearing: “There was nothing that night from ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS or NPR.” https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/07/congressional-hearings-about-team-biden-die-in-liberal-media-darkness/

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