FBI Bureau Disinvites Catholic Priest for Ash Wednesday Following Memo Leak | EWTN News Nightly
- Preacher
- Mother Angelica
- Tradition
- Roman Catholic
- Published
- Length
- 4:43
About this sermon
A former FBI agent says the bureau's Chicago field office disinvited a Catholic priest who was scheduled to administer ashes on Ash Wednesday. The move by FBI authorities broke a decades-long Lenten tradition in the Chicago office. It comes after a recently leaked FBI memo revealed the bureau's targeting of "radical traditional Catholics." The FBI has since retracted the memo. Catholic leaders have accused the FBI of "religious profiling." Former FBI agent and the man who uncovered the recent memo, Kyle Seraphin, joins to share his reaction to these headlines and what this signals to him about the FBI. As a former agent, Seraphin discusses how unusual it is for a Catholic priest to come in on Ash Wednesday and whether there was a time when this was a normal and acceptable practice. Seraphin tells us where he thinks the warning about radical Catholics or targeting of Catholics is coming from and whether he was alarmed by it. The FBI has since redacted the memo. Seraphin explains why he thinks they did that. He fills us in on his thoughts regarding the overall integrity of the agency and its standing in terms of public trust. ------------ EWTN News Nightly provides the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Join host Tracy Sabol, our Capitol Hill, White House and Rome Correspondents, as well as many other diverse guests daily, to get the latest from the U.S. and the Vatican on topics regarding our Catholic faith and interests. ------------- EWTN News Nightly airs on EWTN weekdays at 6pm & 9pm ET. ------------ Don't miss an episode of EWTN New Nightly. Get updates here: https://www.ewtn.com/tv/shows/ewtn-news-nightly ------------- Sign up today to receive the EWTN News Nightly newsletter: https://www.ewtn.com/enn ------------- Follow EWTN News Nightly on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ewtnnewsnightly Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWTNNewsNightly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewtnnewsnightly/ ------------- Subscribe to EWTN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/EWTN ------------- You can support the EWTN News mission: https://bit.ly/3qDR1qf
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