The DOJ announced on April 30 that its Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias had produced a major report reviewing policies and actions across seventeen federal agencies. The Department described the core report as 200 pages, supported by more than 1,100 footnotes and more than 300 pages of exhibits. The report frames the Biden administration as having used federal power against Christians in areas touching life, family, sexuality, education, medical decisions, vaccine mandates, conscience protections, and religious speech.
The FBI’s Richmond Field Office under Joe Biden produced an intelligence product treating “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as a potential extremism vector. The controversy became so embarrassing that Christopher Wray publicly called the memo “appalling,” while Merrick Garland also criticized it after it surfaced. Later congressional disclosures indicated that FBI material connected to the memo had been distributed far more widely than the original public narrative suggested.
The important point is that the government knew where to look. It did not start by worrying about Catholic yoga retreats, synodal listening circles, “Care for Creation” parish gardens, or diocesan offices producing rainbow-themed pastoral resources. It worried about people who still believed Catholic doctrine as if it were more than a personal lifestyle preference. It worried about Catholics with old Mass instincts, old moral instincts, old loyalties, old enemies, old certainties. It worried about Catholics who might believe that abortion is murder, that marriage is not a wax figure to be reshaped by the courts, that the State has no right to command obedience against God, and that the Faith is public truth.
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