Tag: Catholics

Jordan Threatens FBI Director Wray With Contempt Over ‘Targeting’ Parents, Catholics

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has threatened to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress if the bureau does not comply with two subpoenas related to its alleged targeting of concerned parents and Catholics. In his letter to Mr. Wray on July 17, Mr. Jordan highlighted the FBI’s “wholly inadequate” response…


Archdiocese Blasts Dodgers for Backtracking, Renewing Trans ‘Nuns’ Invite

LOS ANGELES—The Archdiocese of Los Angeles May 23 criticized the Dodgers for backtracking and renewing an invitation to a group of self-described “queer and trans nuns” to take part in the team’s Pride Night. The Dodgers came under fire from a host of LGBT groups and elected officials following its decision to rescind its original…


DOJ Official Sounds Alarm About FBI Agents

The U.S. government has data on millions of Americans through a secret surveillance program. Who has access to the data, and what are certain high-ranking officials saying? A Catholic organization sues the FBI for weaponizing government power to go after Catholics. The president of the group joins us to explore what has happened so far….


Report: Over 3 Million People Tracked by US Government

The U.S. government has data on millions of Americans through a secret surveillance program. Who has access to the data, and what are certain high-ranking officials saying? A Catholic organization sues the FBI for weaponizing government power to go after Catholics. The president of the group joins us to explore what has happened so far….


FBI Disavows Internal Memo Warning Against ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology’

The FBI’s national office on Thursday repudiated a reported internal memo that warned about a connection between so-called “radical-traditionalist Catholics” and “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.” The bureau told The Epoch Times that the internally distributed “field office product” about “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism does not meet the exacting standards of the…


A New Generation of Catholics Discovers Latin Mass 60 Years After Vatican II

Commentary Growing up in a rural enclave in western Pennsylvania, Gina McNulty regularly attended Catholic Mass with her family each Sunday. But something always felt missing about the experience, McNulty said—something she could not put her finger on until a few years ago when she and her husband, Steven, began attending a traditional Latin Mass…


US Pushes Back on Chinese Flight Suspensions

A deal has been struck between U.S. and Chinese regulators. But will it bring an end to the ongoing debate over audit access? And will Beijing keep its promises? Washington is suspending 26 Chinese airlines in September. The move responds to China’s halting of over two dozen U.S. flights over COVID-19 policy. Visiting Taiwan is…


Soft-Pedaling on China’s Atrocities Only Metastasized Its Machinery of Repression: Human Rights Experts

The belief that downplaying Beijing’s human rights abuses can lead to reforms in China has not only validated the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) approach against faith groups such as Falun Gong, but has also licensed it to repeat the atrocities, a paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) says. “Successive Canadian governments, and others around the…


Soft-Pedaling China’s Atrocities Only Metastasized Its Machinery of Repression: Human Rights Experts

The belief that downplaying Beijing’s human rights abuses would lead to reforms in China has not only validated the Chinese Communist Party’s approach against faith groups such as Falun Gong, but has also given it license it to repeat the atrocities, a paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) says. “Successive Canadian governments, and others around…


Marine Officer Warns Congress Against Classifying Christians in Military as ‘Religious Extremists’

A slide used in a Department of Defense (DOD) training manual identifies Catholics and evangelical Christians as “religious extremists,” along with members of the Ku Klux Klan, al Qaeda and Hamas, according to a Marine Corps officer. “First Liberty also obtained a screenshot of an unclassified slide from a U.S. Army training manual. The slide…