FBI retracts document targeting Traditionalist Catholics

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has retracted a field-office report lumping some “traditionalist” Catholics with “violent extremists”. The prestigious Wall Street Journal criticised the report’s embrace of a “false leftist political narrative that religiously inspired support of traditional marriage or pro-life views amount to a rising domestic terror threat”.

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He loves, He hopes, He waits. If He came down on our altars on certain days only, some sinner, on being moved to repentance, might have to look for Him, and not finding Him, might have to wait. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep him waiting one instant.

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