Catholics in the Crosshairs

Over the past few weeks, liberals have discovered a strange new respect for the Pope, just as they discovered that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a genius, that Bill Kristol is really a smart guy, and that Tim Miller is the kindest, bravest, warmest, and most generous guy in the world. 

All it takes is saying something awful about Trump, and you are in the club. 

But the fact is that the Democratic Party and the left have been at war with Catholics for a number of reasons, mostly having to do with gender ideology and especially abortion. 

The FBI famously worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center to label conservative Catholics “domestic extremists,” and federal prosecutors imposed outrageously long and disproportionate sentences (twice what they imposed on liberals violating the same laws), and prosecuted cases that they knew were losers just to impose a “process” punishment on pro-lifers. 

Stanley Meador, then the SAC of the Richmond Field Office, wrote to an FBI agent who produced the memo on “radical traditional Catholics,” “Keep that head up, this too shall pass. Will make for a great chapter in your memoirs some day!”

Meador now works for Abigail Spanberger. https://t.co/gD5JNsMGF7 pic.twitter.com/tZFJGhlRPi

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 30, 2026

The FBI and Biden administration insisted there was no bias. It’s just that nobody is above the law, and how could anybody think that Joe Biden, a performative Catholic, could be anything but utterly fair?

EXCLUSIVE: Biden DOJ prosecutors discussed their desire to target Catholic nuns, text messages obtained by @ChuckGrassley + shared with The Daily Wire show.

One of those prosecutors, @cooneycongress, is now running for Congress in Virginia.https://t.co/oN8IlYQJ5h

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 29, 2026

Yeah, well, bullpucky. 

WASHINGTON — Justice Department prosecutors in the Biden administration discussed their desire to target Catholic nuns, text messages shared with The Daily Wire show.

Communications obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show Joseph Cooney and Molly Gaston texting one another in February 2021 as they scoured media coverage of January 6. The texts specifically reference a New York Times photo of religious sisters who attended the “Stop the Steal” rally, wearing traditional habits and veils, as well as big Trump scarves around their necks.

“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” Gaston wrote to Cooney.

“I’m with you,” responded Cooney. “Although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.”

“Hahaha,” his fellow DOJ prosecutor responded.

The Justice Department provided the communications to Grassley as part of his investigation into Arctic Frost, an FBI investigation into Republicans and conservatives. Both Cooney and Gaston went on to serve as top deputies to Special Counsel Jack Smith throughout his Arctic Frost investigation. They now head “Gaston & Cooney PLLC,” and Cooney is running for Congress in Virginia.

Gender ideology is a cult, and abortion is a religious sacrament for liberals. And since conservative Catholics believe in traditional marriage, that sex is real, and that killing babies is wrong, they were targeted for persecution because they are heretics in the new lefty religion that dominates the Democratic Party. 

‘Career Criminal’ Extremist Went To Church. The FBI Used SPLC To Launch A War On Catholics https://t.co/ABfeX9lTNj

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 30, 2026

Christopher Wray, the slick and sleazy FBI Director who helped radicalize the FBI against Catholics, assures us that he was appalled when he discovered that his own agency was labeling Catholics as potential terrorists, and I am just as certain that CIA Director William Burns was appalled when he discovered that the CIA listed “motherhood” as a sign of white supremacy under Joe Biden. 

5 years ago, the Washington Post confirmed that the FBI was tagging PTA moms with threat tags.
The was my moment to finally wake up – switched from Democrat to Independent … and started fighting.https://t.co/bJvTMVPwJv

— Abby (@NoCRTinSchools) April 27, 2026

🚨🚨 Here it is — white mothers, you are a threat to the United States.

Newly released CIA documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), confirm that the Biden terrorist administration identified “motherhood” and “homemaking” as indicators of “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (REMVE).

Don’t miss the trigger warning at the bottom of its own CIA intelligence product regarding how white women promoting motherhood are considered a threat to the United States.

Belief in God, the importance of family, and, God forbid, that men should not be ogling girls and women in locker rooms were sure signs that you were a danger to society, according to the Biden regime. That empowered federal agencies to stalk you, arrest you in the most violent manner possible, put informants in your church pews, and to publicly label you a domestic terrorist. 

WATCH: Rep. Jim Jordan highlights the weaponization of the FBI:

“Americans have seen the FBI’s Richmond field office put together a memorandum saying pro-life Catholics are extremists… The FBI did rescind thank goodness the Richmond Catholic memorandum but they refuse to tell… pic.twitter.com/ZPW6iQfwhW

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 12, 2023

WATCH: Rep. Jim Jordan highlights the weaponization of the FBI:

“Americans have seen the FBI’s Richmond field office put together a memorandum saying pro-life Catholics are extremists… The FBI did rescind thank goodness the Richmond Catholic memorandum but they refuse to tell Congress who wrote it and who approved it.”

You may recall the case of Mark Houck, who defended his son against a deranged pro-abortion activist who was screaming at and threatening his son. The FBI raided his house with a SWAT team, arrested him, tried to put him in jail for a decade, and a jury looked at the evidence and basically laughed at how outrageously he was treated. 

FBI Director Chris Wray defends the FBI sending 30 agents to arrest pro-life activist Mark Houck in front of his family but doing nothing about BLM activists who torch federal buildings:

“We have one standard which is irrespective of ideology or politics.” pic.twitter.com/b8CDcfmMK1

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 1, 2023

He sued the Justice Department and won a huge settlement, which is great, but he also had guns pointed in his face in front of his family. The process is the punishment. Being labeled a domestic extremist is the punishment. And, with the right jury, jail can be the punishment. For disagreeing with the left. 

Chris Wray dodges question if anybody was fired over the internal FBI memo targeting Catholic Americans as “extremists.” pic.twitter.com/BeLsuOfALD

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 5, 2023

By no means were Catholics the only target of the weaponization of law enforcement under the Biden regime. Pretty much anybody they didn’t like was, starting at the top, and it all started in the Obama administration. During his reign, the IRS was weaponized to go after conservative organizations, and of course, Obama and company conspired to create the entirely bogus “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation. 

2023. Comey on who to prosecute for Jan 6th:

“Get all of them…Find everybody who went into that building. Find them all…We will punish everyone who went in there…We will hunt you to the end of the earth, even for a misdemeanor, and make you pay.”pic.twitter.com/G43OVE3n5e

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 28, 2026

Liberals are masters of using pretty words that they think they can use to convince low-information/high-empathy voters that they are the good guys.

2018. Comey and Colbert smear Trump by discussing the “unverified” details of the Steele dossier.

Comey knew the dossier was fiction and that it was paid for by the Clinton campaign. Of course he and Colbert preplanned the discussion.

Evil stuff.pic.twitter.com/bugIFjdnb6

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 29, 2026

“Nobody is above the law,” “equity,” “tax fairness,” or whatever floats their boat. But the fact is that they believe in one thing above all others: seizing and abusing power and money to help their friends and harm their enemies. 

Will anybody pay a price for abusing that power? Of course not. Chances are good that former FBI Agent Joseph Cooney, who openly fantasized about arresting nuns for wearing habits, will soon be a Congressman. 

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