Barry Knestout Archives

‘Disturbing and disappointing’: Virginia lawmakers respond to leaked FBI memo targeting Catholics

'Under the Biden administration, we have already seen the FBI being weaponized, at the request of the National School Boards Association, against the rights of public school parents in Loudoun County, VA and elsewhere,' Virginia delegate Dave LaRock told LifeSiteNews.

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Jean Mondoro

• Feb 24, 2023Feb 27, 2023

USCCB condemns ‘extremism’ while saying FBI memo targeting Catholics is ‘troubling and offensive’

The USCCB noted in its statement on the FBI memo that the conference 'fully supports the work of law enforcement officials to keep our communities safe.'

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Feb 17, 2023Feb 17, 2023

Bishop of Richmond publishes statement condemning FBI for targeting Traditional Catholics

'A preference for traditional forms of worship and holding closely to the Church’s teachings on marriage, family, human sexuality, and the dignity of the human person does not equate with extremism,' Bishop Barry Knestout wrote.

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Andreas Wailzer

• Feb 14, 2023Feb 14, 2023

USCCB silent on leaked FBI memo targeting ‘radical’ Latin Mass Catholics

While 20 attorneys general and a slew of non-Catholics have condemned the FBI’s bombshell memo targeting Latin Mass-goers, comments from the USCCB have been conspicuously absent.

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Emily Mangiaracina

• Feb 11, 2023Feb 17, 2023

Tennessee diocese, bishop face apostolic visitation for alleged improprieties

The attempt to implement the COVID-19 abortion-tainted vaccine mandate for all diocesan employees was ‘a tipping point for many conservative Catholics in the diocese.’

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Doug Mainwaring

• Nov 28, 2022Dec 2, 2022

WATCH: Richmond bishop seeks to laicize priest for blogging about clerical sex abuse, McCarrick case

‘We Catholics just want to belong to a church that we can believe in where we don’t have to try to explain to people who say ‘It’s all just a totally corrupt organization of criminal child predators … We try to say that it’s not but we don’t have any convincing evidence.’

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Doug Mainwaring

• Sep 16, 2021Sep 17, 2021