{"id":1848691,"date":"2023-02-15T16:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848691"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:36:18","slug":"u-s-bishops-silent-after-fbi-claims-conservative-catholics-are-white-supremacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-bishops-silent-after-fbi-claims-conservative-catholics-are-white-supremacists\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Bishops Silent After FBI Claims Conservative Catholics Are \u2018White Supremacists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-bishops-silent-after-fbi-claims-conservative-catholics-are-white-supremacists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848691&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Seven days have passed since a leaked FBI Report revealed that the Richmond, Virginia branch office had penetrated Catholic communities in order to investigate \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops has not said anything in defense of Catholics, whether they are traditional or modern.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI document is a disaster. It offers no evidence that traditional Catholics (those who celebrate the Latin liturgical ritual) are violent or racist. Instead, the FBI report makes fun of these Christians by claiming they have all been accused of having an affair. \u201cadherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/09\/fbi-retracts-memo-labeling-traditional-catholics-violent-white-supremacists-pushing-infiltration-of-christian-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Backpedaled <\/a>on the report, but that doesn\u2019t change the disturbing fact that the bureau demonized and appears to have infiltrated Christian communities for religious thought crimes. It also doesn\u2019t change the unnerving fact that this won\u2019t likely be the last time the FBI targets traditional Christians.<\/p>\n<p>What has the hierarchy of the Catholic Church had to say about the scandalous leak in the seven days that have passed? Nothing. The Federalist tried to reach out to the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops for comment on the illegal targeting of innocent, devout Catholics but was unsuccessful. Only one conference member has responded to the Federalist&#8217;s request. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/253632\/richmond-bishop-condemns-fbis-leaked-memo\">Bishop Barry Knestout<\/a>The people have spoken.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) is a powerful organization with a 2018 budget of over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/about\/financial-reporting\/upload\/financial-statements-2017-2018.pdf\">$200 Million<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillarcatholic.com\/how-the-usccb-gets-its-money-and\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It is a large part of the reason why there are so many.<\/a> Federal contracts and grants. It has also not shied away from participating in heated national political debates in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Multiple products were produced by the USCCB\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchmilitant.com\/news\/article\/us-catholic-bishops-speak-out-against-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Condemnations<\/a>\u00a0of former President Donald Trump\u2019s executive orders to enforce U.S. immigration laws and require foreign countries to address their own citizens\u2019 needs. It also made it public.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchmilitant.com\/news\/article\/climate-change-alarmism-in-the-catholic-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticized<\/a>\u00a0Former president was responsible for withdrawing from Paris&#8217; climate agreement which would leave more Americans without heat and food.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The USCCB\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/news\/2020\/statement-us-bishops-president-george-floyd-and-protests-american-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taken an inflamatory stand<\/a>\u00a0As well, Floyd was a participant in the devastating George Floyd riots that occurred in 2020. Floyd was an a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/who-was-george-floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A convicted felon<\/a>\u00a0Police custody.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/08\/04\/leaked-bodycam-footage-of-george-floyds-arrest-provides-new-context-to-police-apprehension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Refusing to surrender\u00a0<\/a>With a \u201cfatal level\u201d He had fentanyl in his system. According to USCCB President Jos\u00e9 H. Gomez, however, Floyd\u2019s \u201ckilling\u201d This was \u201csenseless and brutal\u201d You can also find out more about a \u201csin that cries out to heaven for justice.\u201d Gomez heavily insinuated Floyd\u2019s death was racially motivated, adding that he shares in the outrage of the \u201cblack community and those who stand with them in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and across the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s not only about what the USCCB does say, but also what it doesn\u2019t. The conference was held in November 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/17\/politics\/catholic-bishops-communion-biden-abortion\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed<\/a>\u00a0Refuse Holy Communion \u201cCatholic\u201d President Joe Biden, and other Democrat politicians, who support the killing of the preborn and elderly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bishops\u2019 silence on the FBI report attacking traditional Catholics likely has to do in part with Church Militant \u2014 the only media organization named in the report. The FBI\u2019s association between Church Militant and so-called violent white supremacists was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/09\/fbi-retracts-memo-labeling-traditional-catholics-violent-white-supremacists-pushing-infiltration-of-christian-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sourced incorrectly and unfounded<\/a>They would easily be defended by the Catholic hierarchy. <\/p>\n<p>Church Militant, however, is well-known for its fervent reporting on corruption and sexual misconduct<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has the Catholic Church hierarchy had to say in the seven days since the slanderous FBI report leaked? Nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":1848694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[9259,15572,13174,4856,4914,5591,18216,7238,3765],"class_list":["post-1848691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-silent","tag-bishops","tag-catholics","tag-claims","tag-conservative","tag-fbi","tag-supremacists","tag-u-s","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}