FBI Forced to Turn Over Docs on Targeting Catholics and Parents

(Washington Stand) America’s top law enforcement agency is finally releasing documents pertaining to targeting American Catholics and parents. The FBI last week handed over internal documents to the House Judiciary Committee related to a January memo from the Richmond, Va. field office outlining plans to infiltrate and spy on “radical traditionalist Catholic” communities, further labeling such Catholics “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.”

“Radical traditionalist Catholics” in the memo are denoted as Catholics who attend the Tridentine Mass, the form of the Mass the Catholic Church has celebrated from roughly the 5th century on. The documents, which also related to labeling concerned parents who attended school board meetings “domestic extremists,” were only given to the House Judiciary Committee after the FBI reportedly requested committee members not make any of the contained information public.  (Read More)

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