Traditional Catholics can count themselves with concerned parents among those targeted by the FBI as domestic extremists.
On Monday, the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government issued a subpoena for FBI Director Christopher Wray over the agency’s targeting of Catholics as “white supremacists” who warrant investigation. In February, former Special Agent Kyle Seraphin blew the whistle on the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, field office infiltrating Catholic parishes.
“The FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of ‘white supremacy,’ which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass,” Seraphin wrote.
Seraphin published leaked documents dated Jan. 23, 2023, on “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE) and their interests in ‘Radical-Traditionalist Catholics’ or RTCs.”
“The document assesses with ‘high confidence’ the FBI can mitigate the threat of Radical-Traditionalist Catholics by recruiting sources within the Catholic Church,” Seraphin reported.
The FBI rescinded the memo after public discovery made headlines. House Republicans Jim Jordan of Ohio, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who chairs the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, demanded answers from the FBI director days later.
[READ: FBI Retracts Memo Labeling Traditional Catholics ‘Violent White Supremacists,’ Pushing Infiltration Of Christian Communities]
“In the wake of the backlash against the FBI’s anti-Catholic document, the FBI withdrew the document and blamed the local level field office for its creation and dissemination,” lawmakers wrote in a Feb. 16 letter. “However, there remain
