By Selwyn Duke

Were they concerned some rad-trad Catholic was going to strangle a modernist with his rosary beads? With leftists likening the rosary to an AR-15 last year, one could wonder. But the “they” here, the FBI, didn’t say. Truly shocking, however, is what it did recently do:

The agency recruited at least one “‘undercover employee’ to ‘develop sources among the clergy and church leadership.’”

So said Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Monday, related National Review (NR). What’s more, the FBI justified its investigation of “radical traditionalist Catholics” with a report by the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This effort raises a question, too:

If this has happened to Catholics, what other innocent but politically incorrect religious groups could be FBI targets?

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