Dear CV Friend,
It’s a grim milestone:
300 attacks on Catholic Churches since May 2020.
After midnight on Saturday, a man dressed all in black broke into Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Ledyard, Connecticut. He threw rocks, bricks, and sacramentals at multiple windows – then broke into the church and spent the next few hours ransacking the church, spray painting hate messages on the floor and multiple walls.
Local police responded to the crime scene immediately. And the state police hate crimes unit is already investigating, too.
But what about the FBI?
So far, crickets.
Actually, this is a common scenario.
Usually, state and local law police leap into action right away after an incident of anti-Catholic violence. And even though local law enforcement has limited resources, they end up making arrests in around 25% of cases.
But under the Biden administration, the FBI – with nearly unlimited investigative power – has somehow only found enough evidence to indict two anti-Catholic attackers over the last three years. And the Department of Justice has still failed to prosecute even a single case.
Why?
Why this unfathomable level of inaction from the nation’s top investigative and law enforcement agencies?
Think back to just a couple weeks ago.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified that the FBI struggles to catch anti-Catholic criminals because they “commit their crimes at night.”
On its face, that’s a pathetic excuse.