Traditional Catholics founds themselves targeted by the FBI last year. In August 2023, the Herald reported that “leaks revealed that the FBI focused in particular on Catholics who were interested in the Traditional Latin Mass as the group within the Church allegedly the most likely to be sympathetic to violent extremist activities.”
What begins in America often swiftly finds its way to the UK.
Yvette Cooper, the recently appointed UK Home Secretary, has just commissioned a swift review of what have been described as “extremist ideologies” as part of a new government anti-extremism strategy.
