Emily Mangiaracina – LifeSite News Feb 10, 2023
FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin has warned that the recently leaked bombshell FBI memo identifying “Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology” as a magnet for “violent extremists” is an “open door” to target all Christians in the U.S. as criminals.
The eight-page memo, written by an FBI analyst in Richmond, Virginia, asserts that “increasingly observed interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE) in Radical Traditionalist Catholic (RTC) Ideology almost certainly presents new opportunities for threat mitigation” via “tripwire and source development.”
The document identifies “Radical Traditional Catholics” as typically rejecting Vatican II as a “valid council,” and often holding “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology.” It further claims that RMVEs have “sought out” traditional Catholic worship and use RTC ideology language on social media.
Seraphin weighed in on the disturbing implications of the memo, which he published on Wednesday, on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
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“I think it’s appalling,” said Seraphin. “It doesn’t seem reasonable, but it is the state of the FBI at this point that they are so desperate to find white supremacists that they’re going to look at the Catholic Church.”
Seraphin and Carlson agreed that, in maligning a particular set of religious beliefs, the memo was at odds with the Constitution. “The Bill of Rights prohibits the government from weighing in on sectarian or religious questions. They don’t get to decide whether your religion is good or bad. They have to be agnostic on it,” Carlson pointed out.
Seraphin said he believes the document and ideas behind it ultimately pose a threat not only to traditional Catholics, but to all Christians in the country.
“I think if we’re realistic about it, they have found a gateway in what they think is fringe Catholicism in order to move into Christians in general and declare them to be the actual criminals in this country, or potential terrorists,” he told Carlson.
The whistleblower observed that the document was written by someone with views “antithetical to Catholicism,” including a belief in abortion “rights” and in “an LGBTQ agenda that needs to be pushed down the American people’s throats.”
According to the document, an alleged “increase in hostility” toward pro-abortion people online showed a “convergence” between RMVEs and RTCs, and its mention of “anti-LGBTQ” RTC beliefs appears to vilify the vast majority of traditional Catholics as well as the majority of conservative Christians, since the biblical belief that marriage only exists between a man and a woman is interpreted by “LGBTQ” advocates to be “anti-LGBTQ.”
In fact, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), cited by the memo in question, even identifies legislation that prevents males from participating in women’s sports as “anti-LGBTQ.” On its website, the SPLC rejects “religious liberty” as a “guise” for what it claims are anti-LGBTQ beliefs.
“It’s an open door to all the Christians in this country, which is pretty much all of the country,” Seraphin concluded.
He pointed out that the anonymous FBI whistleblower who shared the memo with him is not Catholic, but believes that “if they’re going to go after ‘radical’ traditional Catholics, then ‘radical’ traditional Baptists are next, and radical traditional evangelicals, and anybody that espouses what is ‘radical,’ which is just a Christian faith.”
Following intense backlash, the FBI has now released a statement saying it is not only retracting, but also investigating why the anti-Catholic memo was issued by its Richmond, Virginia, office last month.
“While our standard practice is not to comment on specific intelligence products, this particular field office product — disseminated only within the FBI — regarding racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI,” the statement reads.
In its statement, the FBI claims that “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 statement continues: “The FBI is committed to sound analytic tradecraft and to investigate and prevent 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.”
A years-old “study” conducted by the SPLC on the purported dangers of “Radical Traditional Catholicism” was included in the FBI memo as a primary resource in order to justify the agency’s monitoring of certain traditional Catholic groups.
The memo refers to nine traditional Catholic organizations as “RTC hate groups,” as identified and defined by the SPLC: Catholic Family News, The Remnant, The Fatima Center, Tradition in Action, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Culture Wars, In the Spirit of Chartres, Christ or Chaos, and Catholic Apologetics International. These groups were all listed in the SPLC report.
Seraphin responded on Twitter to news about the FBI’s about-face, suggesting the agency only backed off because it had been held to account. “The FBI doesn’t confirm information, but they confirmed this,” he wrote. “Because they were called out. Not because they would NEVER approve it. They approved it, and are embarrassed. This is the only way.”
Catholic Family News editor-in-chief Brian McCall remarked to LifeSiteNews that the memo’s release “confirms the dystopian state of the country in which we sadly live.”
McCall continued, “The FBI is spying on and infiltrating traditional Roman Catholic groups and even parishes for simply exercising their First Amendment Rights. The absurdity of the outrageous allegations of the FBI memo are blatant.”
Although the author acknowledges that white supremacists are and have always been violently anti-Catholic (the KKK burn crosses specifically to show their hostility to Catholics), the author believes these white supremacist groups are now deeply attracted to strongly Catholic parishes and groups that they despise.
Traditional Catholicism has never had anything to do with racial bigotry or hatred. In fact the white supremacist groups that have been active throughout US history (such as the Know Nothing Party) have targeted Catholics because Catholics have always sought the salvation and improvement in this world of the lot of those races and ethnicities despised by the White Protestant elitists.
Ironically every traditional Latin Mass parish I have ever attended is more ethnically diverse than liberal Catholic parishes that segregate attendees by linguistic, and hence ethnic, lines (i.e., Spanish Masses, Vietnamese Masses, etc.).
Traditional Catholics seek the conversion of everyone regardless of race, color, ethnicity, or any other attribute, to the Kingship of Christ. They seek to bring the love of Christ and His Church to all races and ethnicities.
The memo’s prominent reliance on the utterly discredited and bigoted Southern Poverty Law Center, which is not a law center at all but merely a radical political leftist front, further discredits this memo and its author.
The Department of Justice in its continued persecution of pro-life advocates and now simple Traditional Catholics should be renamed from its Orwellian title to the more accurate Department of Injustice.
LifeSiteNews reached out to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Diocese of Richmond for comment, but has not received a response as of publishing.
Wonder if these Catholic groups would have grounds to take legal action against the splc or the feds. The thing is with all the migration from south American countries over decades there is probably more Catholics than ever in America. if they could organize themselves they would wield a good amount of power.
The all out attempt by the evil ones to destroy Christianity which has largely been a success, has not been a total success, as the ongoing demonization of the religion suggests. By their actions they show they still have a hatred but also a fear of strong Christian beliefs, the more they push the satanic agenda the more people can see it and them for what they are.
The biggest Commies and Zionists are Christians, although the Jews will get rid of the traditional sort if they think that Israel and the Holohoax are well-enough established; they can only leave a castrated Christianity in place, if any, and we hear it being preached all the time in the electronic communications media
America’s Christian fundamentalists and Zionists won’t be pleased.
Christ haters rejoice, you have a powerful goy-fronted organization on your side.
Once the grass of “EXTREMIST TRADITION” (anyone notices the deliberate irony in this phrase is a target for state enforced lobotomy) is pulled up by the roots, the remaining atheists can sleep easy under the benign eye of Talmudic Antichrist, ready for the New Dawn.
Catholicism, or Christianity Mark I, was the founding mindspace of European politics as the Roman Empire’s physical declining presence reinvented itself.
I have no time for organised religion, but I have some sympathy for those who do abdicate their individuality for want of intellect and education for an off the peg belief system and sense of belonging it delivers. Indeed, the bravery of men and women during the time of the English Reformation of both Catholic and Protestant persuasions, who sometimes sacrificed their life for their beliefs, cannot be gainsaid.
Suffice to say, the persecution of Catholics for political purposes is not new. It is something I’ve been reading about in respect of the 1605 “Gunpowder Plot”. An entrapment coming very close to being a false flag operation. Here is a free, and very good, eBook, on the subject:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gunpowder-Traditional-Tested-Original-Evidence-ebook/dp/B004UJ3CBQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1LYMF79KW683Q&keywords=john+gerard+what+was+the+gunpowder+plot&qid=1676292997&sprefix=john+gerard+what+was+the+gunpowder+plot%2Caps%2C65&sr=8-1
Malachi Martin once said that Satan HATES Latin (and he should know from his experiences as an exorstist!)… from which we can surmise that Satan especially HATES the Latin Mass…
which probably explains why the Anti-Pope has all but BANNED it… and is NO DOUBT fully on board with this crackdown by the Forces of Baphomet’s Inquisitors.
And DONT expect even a peep of protest from the US Bishops!!!
Get a load of this steaming bull…., “The FBI is committed to sound analytic tradecraft and to investigate and prevent acts of violence and other crimes while upholding the constitutional rights of all Americans”…. Only the mentally retarded could believe that at this point.
Speaking of retards and the dangerously stupid, most people still won’t see the claws of organized Jewry in all this, despite the fact the “Southern Poverty Law Center” is nothing but a force of subversion, degradation, and destruction, and run by Jews. A sane society would ignore such a demonic beast at best, but more rightfully burn it to the ground.
The FBI is an armed gang that exists only to protect the criminal cartel in Washingstein. The FBI has proven itself to be an enemy of We the People and should be immediately shut down. Countless agents have egregiously violated their oaths and have committed treason. Many should be shot or imprisoned. The “management” of the FBI should be dragged through the streets by their ankles, get beaten to pulps, and hanged.
Jews first infested then infiltrated then betrayed Amerika.
Now they are destroying all institutions including the host nation religion.
Yet Christians are 100% loyal to Israel, because they believe the Bible and think that Jesus is a savior, and since he is Jewish, they think they must be loyal to Jews to get into heaven./
This is not some speculation on my part, fat bastard John Hagee (megachurch pastor) says you must love Israel or you will go to hell.
Jews sell everyone out including their mothers.
What the amoral and sociopath liberal left is most concerned about is an actual organized political opposition from a nucleus they have not invaded and subverted. They know that the more orthodox and less wishy-washy the liturgy and theology actually is, then the more the people gravitate to objective standards and traditional moral teachings.
What these attacks prove is that the entire liberal push from Vatican II in the 1960’s for openness and “pluralism” was nothing but a pretext by totalitarian secularists and communists to neutralize Christian moral principles and kick them out of the public square, and now we see clearly that with all their usurpations of the levers of power, even our own churches, they will not allow any tolerance, openness, or “pluralism” in opposition to their own hedonistic, corrupt, and oppressive policies and designs.
Also, in the trad movement back to basics, the overwhelming majority of the people openly resisted the oppressive and fake government Covid mandates, and their churches became places of refuge, which is another reason why the governments want to persecute them.
lt’s almost as if a bunch of unhinged ‘jews’ had taken over America…. and that seems very likely..
..because only unhinged ‘jews’ are stupid enough to put the ‘only’ zionist allies they have..and tens of millions of them..
in the firing line…
yup.. not too bright…
Right if I’m a criminal/Terrorist I had better start acting like one.I start tomorrow!
there has probably been once before 5000 years
or more an atawar called Christo by the greeks
but he surely was not a jewish or israeli jesus !
this jew or israeli looked only for his chosened .
this believe is to abolish since all souls of all creatures
are holied by the ONENESS and this ONENESS
surely was not a desert demon of hate + jealousy !
FBI/CIA/MI5+6/Mossad/NORAD/PENtagon
all were involved in 9.11. They are all criminals.
the most criminals : PNAC neocons, Cheney,
both Bush .
Are Christians criminals? I do think so. First of all the support the state. The state is run by psychotic criminals, so Christians are supporting evil called government.
Many Christians also support Israel, the most evil state on the planet. Israel did 911, so if you support Israel, and you are an Amerikan, you are guilty of treason.
Christians teach hell, the teach terrorist literature, the Bible says if you don’t believe in Jesus (the Jew) you will go to hell for all eternity. They teach this insanity to children. It is a crime to do so.
Christians support illegal immigrants. They take jobs away from citizens, that is evil.
Illegal immigrants are also rapists, so to support illegals is to condone rape.
Christians rally around the Jews, thus they protect the evil destroying the world.
Christians are spiritual exclusionists like Jews. Jews say they are the chosen ones, Christians say they are the only ones going to heaven.
Thus, a rational person must conclude, Christians are indeed evil.