How many traditionalists, with all their children, go around creating terror, blowing up buildings, mass shootings, crashing jets into sky scrappers and the like. How many?
How many are communist spies or Chinese agents trying to subvert the nation and bring about totalitarianism?
Wow!
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Shows how evil and corrupt the Biden Administration is - and the cowering USCCB and the Pope says nothing because they are part of the problem, not the solution. The FBI got caught - I doubt they will change.
I am reminded of Father Dwight Longenecker's 2016 A.D. column:
Ten Traits of Catholic Fundamentalism
MARCH 7, 2016 BY FR. DWIGHT LONGENECKER
https://dwightlongenecker.com/ten-traits-of-catholic-fundamentalism/
"Within Catholic ultra traditionalist circles a new wave of ugliness has arisen. Numerous traditionalist blogs, websites and publications spew disrespectful hatred towards the Catholic church."
"They mock the Mass by despising the “Novus Ordo” they denigrate the Holy Father referring to him as “Pope Frank” or “Bergoglio” and refer to their mother the Catholic Church with adolescent disrespect as “FrancisChurch”.
"I’m not going to link to the aggregators and websites in question because if you’re interested all you have to do is snoop around a little and follow a few links."
"You’ll see how they lie, misrepresent and tear down fellow Catholics, how these self appointed prophets ridicule, gossip and slander their fathers in God, and how these self righteous, pretentious Pharisees vomit their bile on all they meet."
Trait 6:
"Anger and Violence Fundamentalism is always tinged with anger. Fundamentalists are angry and aggressive, and given enough rope they will move from verbal violence to other forms of aggression."
"The Catholic fundamentalists who bother to read this far and react in anger to this blog post by threatening to sue me for example, will prove my point and they will not even be able to see this themselves."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
In regard to Father Longenecker's 2016 A.D. column in question:
He backed down when he faced the following:
Father Longenecker:
"For those who are interested in the recent conflict with the editor and staff of The Remnant, I would like to clarify matters. Some time ago I wrote this article which discussed ten traits of fundamentalists.
"There were two details in the post which offended Michael Matt, the editor of The Remnant and his contributor–lawyer Chris Ferrara. In one paragraph I spoke about the exclusive nature of fundamentalists who see themselves as the only true believers, and I used the word “Remnant.”
"Later I said that fundamentalists, “given enough rope would move from verbal to physical violence."
"Mr Matt and his staff at The Remnant launched into a fierce attack in their columns. Reading their column, and understanding their grievance I immediately softened the language in the original article.
"A few days later I received from FedEx a three page letter full of intimidating legalese from Mr Ferrara. He accused me of libel, hinted at a lawsuit and demanded a retraction.
"Responding as one does to an aggressive threat, I issued the retraction he demanded."
"Was I frightened (and therefore angry) by this tactic? Of course. I’m human. Wouldn’t you be? Did I respond with a sarcastic follow up post? Yes. Did I think better of it and take it down later the same day? Yes."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Very troubling indeed– “the document assesses with ‘high confidence’ [that] the FBI can mitigate the threat of Radical-Traditionalist Catholics by recruiting sources within the Catholic Church” according to former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin who published the leaked memo. In an interview with Tucker Carlson Thursday night, Seraphin, who is a Catholic provided an interesting fact about it. He became aware of the memo through a FBI whistleblower who is not Catholic but was nevertheless very troubled by it.
I read about this elsewhere.
After how many years, and so many contributions, we're still viewed as apart from the mainstream in this country. Even the government has weaponized the TLM. I feel so badly for its adherents.
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