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Asking About This Latin Mass Thing with the FBI…
Let me start with a link. This article contains what appears to be a copy of what the FBI calls an “intelligence product,” which the rest of us might call a position paper or something like that. The “product” is by an “intelligence analyst” at the Richmond Field Office and speculates that Catholics who attend Latin Mass bear watching as potential white supremacists, and that sources should be recruited to infiltrate certain churches.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Twenty state Attorneys General have written to Merrick Garland and expressed outrage. FBI retracted the document. Jim Jordan’s committee is looking at it. OK. But this sounds like it’s going to get the Gas Stove Treatment: we’ve never thought of doing such a thing, you’re crazy to make such a claim, and why the heck shouldn’t we?
Am I taking crazy pills?
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I guess we should be heartened that Biden and Pelosi make such a show of being Catholic. When their successors deny it loudly we’re in for a new level of trouble.
I’d always thought that the reason was to look modern and accessible. But I grew up in a mill town with Italian, Polish, and many other immigrants, and Latin put us on a level playing field. After Vatican II, we became English Speakers and Others, and the Catholic Church wound up with fewer Spanish speakers, because language now divided the congregation. I don’t know how big a deal this was, but it was something.
The time when RCs hijacked four planes was terrible….
Maybe he should replace Francis . . .
You’d better look out, the Church Militant has missals and canons.
Nice!
The US government has always disliked Catholics. Mainly because it used to be a Protestant nation. Of the two POTUS that were Catholic one got killed and the other is not really a Catholic by most Catholic standards. So a Biden (claims Catholic) ran FBI going after Catholics should be expected. Given that Biden says the current Pope thinks he is great it may even be part of a larger effort of removing the more traditional Catholic so the Pope / Left / Biden get their ways.
I think I could put a trial copy of Pixillion on a different computer (and maybe register with a different e-mail).
I wish I had known OneNote could do OCR. Back when it was just coming into existence the product manager for OneNote assured me (in a comment forum) that OneNote wouldn’t be a closed system. I’d be able to get the data out of it that I put into it. I don’t know if that’s true. Sometimes the frustrations with Evernote make me think I should give OneNote a try. But I never have gotten around to it.