Exactly one year after the FBI’s infamous memo about traditionalist (Latin Mass–attending) Catholics being a potential source of threat to the country, the U.S. Capitol hosted a small private Latin Mass for locals and Capitol Hill staffers that was organized by the Arlington Latin Mass Society. The Pillar has a full report.
The memo outlined reasons why the FBI should begin surveilling Latin Mass communities and developing sources within them.
From The Pillar:
Ryan Ellis, a board member of the Arlington Latin Mass Society and a lead organizer of Tuesday’s Mass, told The Pillar before Mass began that the liturgy was a “moment of pride” for Catholics attached to the extraordinary form of the liturgy.
“The idea came about as we were coming up to the one year anniversary of the FBI memo. It occurred to me that there’s a great way to show that the House majority is behind the traditional Catholics that were being maligned by the FBI,” said Ellis.
“And what better way to show that than to have a traditional Latin Mass in the Capitol, which as best we can tell has either never happened before, at least going back to the Civil War.”
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