The US Department of Justice has concluded that the FBI improperly investigated traditional Catholics as potential extremists, monitored two priests and continued developing a controversial intelligence assessment after the bureau had ordered it withdrawn.
What the New U.S. Report on FBI Surveillance against Catholics Shows
On August 28, the U.S. Justice Department released a 231-page report on the FBI’s 2023 Richmond Catholic memo, including evidence of surveillance of traditionalist Catholic clergy.
The FBI investigated two priests and conducted surveillance connected to them. One belonged to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX); the other, his uncle, was associated with SSPX Resistance and had been ordained by Bishop Richard Williamson.
Agents researched travel and credit-card records. FBI personnel in Boston surveilled the second priest at the airport, while Customs and Border Protection questioned him and searched his phone.
Both investigations were subsequently closed after the FBI found no identified national-security threat and no alleged violation of federal law.
Among the exhibits in the DOJ report is an FBI PowerPoint titled “Traditionalist Catholicism Overview” - essentially a rudimentary guide to the various traditionalist …More
The US Department of Justice has concluded that the FBI improperly investigated traditional Catholics as potential extremists, monitored two priests and continued developing a controversial intelligence assessment after the bureau had ordered it withdrawn.
I wonder who demanded the investigation? I wonder whether people who want the traditional Mass to disapper were in some way inolved in this decision.
A report from the U.S. Department of Justice, published on August 26, 2026, provides detailed insight into a case that began in 2023 and delivers a very harsh judgment on the FBI's actions
If you read the slides on "Radical Traditional Catholicism" you will see that for the FBI any Catholic who adheres to and professes all the Magisterial teaching, Encyclicals and Apostolic letters on Church and State, family and morality of previous Popes before Vatican II (and, indeed, the Ten Commandments) should be profiled as a terrorist.
The FBI makes a complete caricature of what those teachings are and represent, claiming such nonsense as Traditional Catholics believe in a "totalitarian Catholic confessional State".
They even portray the fundamental principle of “Error has no rights” as being problematic and indicative of "radical Traditionalism". Tell that to God, Who holds the same principles. So Hell is a terroristic construct?
For them, the Traditional Catholics are more problematic than islamist
Spot on! Once I got into an argument with a liberal woman who thought the Catholic Church in particular, and Christians in general, were the greatest enemies to women. When I brought up the REAL misogyny and violence toward women of Islam she accused me of Islamophobia.
Well, the certain but also a great number of men and woman of our days seems to be brainless.
Therefore, we shouldn't wonder why are all things in these same days of ours so bad, evil and worse.