DOJ Report: FBI Memo Targeted Traditional Catholics as Extremists

A newly released Justice Department report examines the FBI's 2023 Richmond memo, which profiled "radical traditionalist Catholics" as potential domestic extremists, linking orthodox Catholic beliefs, opposition to abortion and LGBTQ ideology, and support for the Traditional Latin Mass with violent extremism. The memo, circulated to over 1,000 FBI employees, targeted groups connected to the Society of Saint Pius X before a planned nationwide expansion was shelved. The DOJ calls it a serious failure, but no officials have been publicly named or disciplined, leaving unresolved whether treating traditional religious practice as a security threat will recur.