The EWTN News portal (August 28, 2026) reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has released a report condemning the FBI’s 2023 Richmond field office memo as a “grave failure” for linking “radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology” to violent extremism. The memo originated from a 2020 investigation of a vandalism suspect who attended a Society of St. Pius X chapel; agents subsequently targeted the SSPX and the so-called “SSPX Resistance,” drafting a “domain perspective” that identified “conservative family values,” “rejection of religious neutrality,” and the desire for a “totalitarian, anti-pluralist Catholic nation” as markers of extremism. FBI Director Kash Patel and Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward decried the memo as an “abuse of power” targeting “disfavored” beliefs, while Attorney General Todd Blanche vowed to end “weaponized bureaucracy.” The cited article relates a secular state retracting its own clumsy attack on a false traditionalist sect, yet the true scandal remains unspoken: the FBI’s “extremist” checklist reads as a near-verbatim summary of the Social Kingship of Christ condemned by the Syllabus and Quas Primas, proving that the Masonic state recognizes the integral Catholic Faith as its only mortal enemy.
The Pseudo-Traditionalist Bait: SSPX as Controlled Opposition
The entire FBI operation pivots on the Society of St. Pius X and its “Resistance” offshoot. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, these groups are not the “radical traditionalists” of the FBI’s fevered imagination, but those pretending to be traditional Catholics who function as a pressure valve for the conciliar sect. Founded by Archbishop Lefebvre — ordained by the Freemason Liénart and consecrated by bugnini-ite bishops — the SSPX has continuously acknowledged the validity of the usurpers in the Vatican, pleading: “give us the old Mass, that is enough for us.” Their “Resistance” faction merely stages a more theatrical dissent while remaining canonically tethered to the neo-church. The FBI’s investigation of an SSPX chapel and a “priest associated with it” reveals the paramasonic structure monitoring its own controlled opposition. The individual in question — a vandal and weapons offender — is presented as the archetype of “radical-traditionalist” violence; in reality, he is the fruit of a compromised spirituality that accepts the antipope (currently “Leo XIV,” Robert Prevost) as Vicar of Christ while rejecting the Syllabus’s condemnation of religious liberty. True Catholics, adhering to the Sede Vacante thesis since 1958, are invisible to this dialectic because they recognize no legitimate authority in the Vatican or its satellite sects.
Linguistic Engineering: Framing Dogma as “Extremism”
The memo’s internal presentation slides, quoted by the DOJ report, define the “core ideology” of “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as including: “conservative family values/roles,” “tendency toward isolationism,” “creation of a totalitarian, anti-pluralist Catholic nation,” and “rejection of religious neutrality and right to religious freedom.” This vocabulary is not accidental; it is the Newspeak of the Masonic Republic. “Religious neutrality” and “right to religious freedom” are the twin pillars of the heresy of Americanism and Modernism, solemnly condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus (Errors 15, 55, 77, 78, 79) and by Pope Leo XIII in Immortale Dei and Libertas. The Syllabus anathematizes the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77). The FBI memo treats the Catholic dogma of the Confessional State — the potestas indirecta in temporalibus — as a symptom of “domestic violent extremism.” The phrase “totalitarian, anti-pluralist Catholic nation” is a deliberate calumny against the Regnum Christi, wherein Christ the King reigns by right of nature and redemption over all nations (Quas Primas, citing Psalm 2:8: “Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for an inheritance”). The “tendency toward isolationism” pathologizes the fuga mundi and the duty to separare a malo (2 Cor 6:17). This is theological illiteracy weaponized as counter-terrorism.
Theological Confrontation: The Memo Condemns the Magisterium
The “grave failure” identified by the DOJ is merely procedural; the material heresy of the memo’s premise goes unaddressed. The document asserts that rejection of religious liberty constitutes evidence of radicalization. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches the exact opposite: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power… ‘When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed'”. The encyclical declares that the State is bound to profess the Catholic religion and that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” is an error (Syllabus, Error 41). The FBI memo, therefore, classifies the infallible teaching of the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium as a “violent extremist ideology.” This is the odium fidei of the secular arm laid bare. The distinction drawn by the FBI between “radical” and “traditionalist” Catholics — the latter accepting the “Traditional Latin Mass” but not “extremist ideological beliefs” — exposes the ecumenical trap: the conciliar sect (represented by the indult “traditionalists” and FSSPX) accepts Dignitatis Humanae and the false ecumenism of Vatican II, rendering them “safe” citizens of the Masonic order. The “radicals” (the SSPX Resistance) merely mimic the rhetoric of the Syllabus while recognizing the manifest heretics on the Throne of Peter, thereby proving the sedevacantist principle: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, cited in Defense of Sedevacantism).
Symptomatic Decay: The Alta Vendita in Action
This episode is not an aberration but the standard operation of the “Church of the New Advent”. The Alta Vendita instructed: “We must aim at the papacy… to march securely toward the destruction of the Church… spread the poison… in the very heart of the Church.” The FBI, the DOJ, and the “Weaponization Working Group” are the secular executors of this plan. The memo’s drafting, retraction, and the subsequent “admonishment” of low-level analysts constitute a limited hangout — a ritual sacrifice to preserve the status quo of religious indifferentism. Attorney General Blanche’s promise to “not tolerate a weaponized bureaucracy that chills First Amendment activity” is the ultimate blasphemy: the First Amendment enshrines the “pest of indifferentism” (Syllabus, Error 79) as the supreme law, guaranteeing the “civil liberty of every form of worship” which Pius IX condemned as leading to the “corrupt[ion of] the morals and minds of the people.” The EWTN portal, a propaganda organ of the conciliar sect, celebrates this “victory” for religious liberty, proving its allegiance to the cult of man over the Rights of God. The true Church — Ecclesia Militans — remains where it has always been: outside the camp, bearing His reproach (Heb 13:13), anathematized by the state and the neo-church alike for the “crime” of confessing that “Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil 2:11), which necessarily entails the subjection of all temporal power to His Kingship. The FBI memo, in its clumsy malice, has inadvertently testified to the truth: the only “ideology” that threatens the City of Man is the Gospel of the City of God.
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Department of Justice report says FBI’s 2023 Richmond memo was ‘grave failure’ of responsibility (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.08.2026