The State’s War on the Catholic Faith: A Conciliar Sect’s Complicity
The cited article from EWTN News reports on the ongoing legal battle by Judicial Watch to obtain unredacted FBI documents concerning a 2023 memo from the FBI’s Richmond field office that targeted “radical traditionalist” Catholics, specifically those attached to the Traditional Latin Mass, for surveillance and infiltration under the guise of investigating “extremist” ties. While framed as a fight for “transparency” and “religious liberty” within a secular, constitutional framework, the article and the events it describes constitute a profound and damning symptom of the apostasy of the post-conciliar “Church” and the systematic persecution of the one, true Catholic faith by the powers of this world, which the conciliar sect has effectively surrendered to.
I. Theological Bankruptcy: The Denial of Christ the King
The foundational error of the entire affair, which the article treats as a mere civil liberties issue, is the total omission of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, dogmatically defined that the reign of Christ “encompasses all men” and extends to “states” and “governments,” which have the “duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The article quotes the conciliar document Gaudium et Spes on “non-discrimination,” a principle utterly alien to the Catholic doctrine that all human law must be subordinated to the Law of God. The FBI’s investigation into Catholics for their religious beliefs is not a “threat to religious liberty” in the American constitutional sense; it is a direct consequence of the world’s rejection of Christ’s absolute sovereignty over the social order, a rejection which the conciliar sect has embraced by endorsing “religious freedom” and the separation of Church and State—errors condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Propositions 15, 19, 55, 77). The bishops’ tepid response, calling it a “threat to religious liberty,” demonstrates their complete abandonment of Catholic doctrine. They do not cry out that the State has no authority to investigate the Church’s faithful for holding the one true faith; they merely complain about a procedural overreach within a godless system they accept.
II. The “Extremist” Label: A Modernist Tool for Persecution
The memo’s core premise—that adherence to traditional Catholic doctrine and liturgy (the Traditional Latin Mass) is a potential
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Judicial Watch pushes for transparency in 2023 FBI memo linking extremist risk to some Catholics (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.03.2026