Ugh.

The Deep State will stop at nothing to destroy the Church. It has too. The Church is the only institution that can stop it.

The Federalist: Virginia Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine gave the FBI his approval to investigate Catholic parishes in his own state on Monday.

When asked by a local ABC affiliate about the FBI’s Richmond division infiltrating Catholic communities to spy on the church for alleged extremism, Kaine called the revelations a misunderstanding.

“I think the key is communication,” Kaine told ABC13. “If the FBI has a concern like that, then go to the church leaders and say, ‘Hey look, we have a concern and we don’t want your members to get unwittingly caught up in something.’”…

Kaine said Monday that the FBI has been running similar surveillance of American Muslims.

“We’ve done the same thing for years working in tandem with mosques because there have been groups that have tried to target or radicalize, especially young people,” the senator said.

Yeah but a bunch of Muslims blew up the World Trade Center and killed thousands of Americans. What have traditional Catholics done? Hmmmm? This is a political hit job. Nothing less.

I hop every Catholic in Virginia understands that he just let loose the dogs of the Deep State on Catholics everywhere.

Thankfully, we have the USCCB standing up for us and shouting this kind of nonsense down. Here’s the latest from the bishops about this outrage: