A whistleblower from within the FBI leaked an internal document on Wednesday concerning the Bureau’s surveillance of so called “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” as a threat creating “white supremacy”.
The document is called “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.” It details the FBI’s plans to watchdog institutions such as the Fraternal Society of St. Peter, the Priestly Society of St. Pius X, the SSPX “Resistance” as well as sedevacantist groups. The excuse for this surveillance is a supposed concern for “violent white supremacists” drawn to traditionalist movements. What is most controversial about the document is the use of a study conducted by the infamously bias Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has smeared the Catholic Church frequently in the past.
This type of surveillance is clearly biased, as more than 200 crisis pregnancy centers have been violently attacked since the overturning of Roe vs Wade, with little to no involvement from the Bureau. Traditional Catholics are the last people that need surveillance from the FBI. The Black Lives Matter rallies cost dozens of lives and billions of dollars of damage, but the Bureau turned a blind eye. Catholics are called to be radical. We are called to stand against what the world tries to force upon us as the truth. If standing against abortion, gay marriage, rampant illegal immigration and the like is “radical”, than that is what all Catholics are called to be. Clearly the message of Christ is one of love and peace, and no acts of violence resulting from despair in the state of this world can be condoned. But all believers in the one true Church are called to stand in defense of the unborn, of marriage and families, and of our country. Institutions such as the FBI are trying to infiltrate the Church, but this cannot stop us from putting our trust in God and doing His will.